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Leopards Ate My Face

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43460008

Abdellatif Hafraoui sits at a small dining table in the Bayonne apartment he shares with his wife, Sandra, sipping his morning coffee — a ritual unchanged over their 15 years of marriage.

Since August, however, that routine has been shadowed by months in ICE detention and the black ankle monitor now strapped around his leg.

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The arrest forced Sandra to reconsider assumptions she had long held about immigration enforcement. “To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020.

Sandra voted for Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

Asked what she would say to him now, she paused. “You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 26 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

“We just want to be treated like people with rights,”

If there is one person without rights, then nobody has rights. But I'm not sure you're smart enough to learn that lesson.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 minute ago

To quote Solomon Burke's amazing song:

None of us are free if one of us is chained

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 hour ago

Boo — and I can’t stress this enough — fuckinghoo. You get what you voted for.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 21 points 2 hours ago

I can forgive a lot of things in life, but someone over 30 (so of voting age during Trump's first campaign and presidency) with an Arab-sounding name cheering for the guy whose Very First Act In Office was a blanket ban on visits from a lot of Muslim countries is a special kind of dumb.

It's not even LeopardsAteMyFace territory. It's, "This guy already said he hates my guts, so I am totally voting for him because this time it's going to be different."

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’

Stupid is as stupid does

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 55 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

. . . Since his release, Abdellatif has been required to attend ICE check-ins and live under electronic monitoring. He cannot return to work.

In addition to the $15,000 bond, the couple estimates they have spent about $50,000 in legal fees to date, draining savings built over decades. They have launched a GoFundMe [link removed because fuck that] to help cover ongoing costs.

“We just want to be treated like people with rights,” Sandra said. “Not as problems to be managed.”

TL;DR: Learned nothing, will continue to vote cult til they die.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Typical that they’d go to the GFM grift.

[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Playing the world smallest violin for you. You know what? Not even worth it.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 hour ago

The ONLY way to Stop Trump from KIDNAPPING and DEPORTING my Family is to VOTE for Trump AGAIN!

-LITERALLY EVERY Republican you Read about!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Conservative Media: "Trump is arresting all the criminals. Here are some of the (AI generated) criminals Trump has recently arrested. Aren't you glad these people are no longer in the United States?"

Conservative Voters: "Wow, great job, I love this news"

Actual ICE official: incoherent screaming at your husband

Subset of Conservative Voters Experiencing This Personally: "This is not what the TV told me would happen"

Now I guess we get to find out if the subset is big enough to shift the elections, despite CBS getting added to the pile of reactionary propaganda.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. These cultist fucks are brainwashed.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

https://bsky.app/profile/papootx.bsky.social/post/3mfb7gojue222

Reality has a well known liberal bias. And as the saying goes, a leftist is just a liberal who has been mugged by the police.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know if you should read that much into it, other than that for once there are multiple viable Democrats in a primary. I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead , though to both parties’ credit they are not running negative campaigns.

But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead

The GOP is having its own night of the long knives. I wouldn't lose too much sleep.

But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

It's a powerful message. Just ask NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bluesky has a liberal bias...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 40 seconds ago
[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

These stupid assholes will never change their minds.

This dumb cunt and her husband will both immediately go back to supporting Trump tomorrow.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

lol fuck them to hell and back. They obviously wanted this.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They are, dumbass. You voted a paedophile rapist, insurrectionist, murderer into office, who we all knew was a felon, and he ran in order to cover up his own crimes, as well as to break many more laws.

Aiding and abetting is a crime, and that’s what you did, at least in spirit.

Fuck all the way off.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The pic is choice:

Sandra and Abdellatif were staunch supporters of President Donald Trump. They even flew to Las Vegas to attend a Trump rally in 2020.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 23 points 3 hours ago

Sandra voted for Trump three times

Don't worry, once 2028 rolls around, she'll vote for him a fourth time.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

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[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

fuck this dumb fuck

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

Haha, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!