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Leopards Ate My Face

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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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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

November data set showing of ICE detainees 5% of people having violent crime convictions, 73% are people with no crimes at all.

https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-no-convictions

Drink the Kool aid, ignore reality for corruption and grift, and the federation collapses

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Still don't understand how some people, especially those so obsessed with law and order and paperworks, doesn't file for citizenship as soon as eligible, and just lives decades without filing for citizenship?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

generally speaking, people do file the proper paperwork if it doesn't put them at immediate risk of expulsion back to whatever they were fleeing in the first place (which is the most common outcome of applying for legal residency after "illegally" "crossing" the "border"). once you file the paperwork the usual turnaround time to get legal residency or citizenship is 10-15 years.

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 18 points 18 hours ago

This story warms my heart. It's pretty rare that someone gets exactly what they voted for.

Can't wait for the sequel where he gets deported and has his GoFundMe scam money stolen.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago

"I voted for a criminal who said he was gonna go after criminals. I don't know what went wrong."

Some day scholars will have figured it out. Until then a mystery it shall remain.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 92 points 1 day 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.

To quote Solomon Burke's amazing song:

None of us are free if one of us is chained

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

I always thought it was criminal to be this stupid, so does that count?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it sure would be nice if immigrants were treated like people with rights instead of problems to be managed

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

The face-eating leopards are feasting

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 28 points 23 hours ago

Oh, look! You had $65,000 lying around to put up a fight! You're better off than a significant portion of the people in similar situations.

You have negative amounts of my sympathy.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Typical that they’d go to the GFM grift.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bet somebody showed her project 2025 and she called them delusional

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

"yeah but Donald Trump said he doesn't know anything about it"

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

That's a losing bet to take...only a maga would take that bet.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 60 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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."

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

His name sounds Persian, not Arab. Still resoundingly stupid for him to support trump though.

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

with an Arab-sounding name

and a deportation order.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah. These cultist fucks are brainwashed.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 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 7 points 1 day 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

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

These stupid assholes will never change their minds.

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Why are Americans this dumb?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Murdoch media, talk radio, Heritage Foundation, Citizens United, and Cambridge Analytica. All coming for you if it’s not already there. Right, UK? Germany, wassup.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look up "the southern strategy". They targeted poor rural areas for indoctrination, and it's paying dividends two decades later.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

and what's more, this rural/urban division is being deployed across the world to shift the whole world authoritarian

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 13 points 23 hours ago

Stupid is too kind of a word.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

If he doesn't like Trump then he probably

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago

Turns out that most GOP voters are criminals or are married to criminals?

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

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

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day 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

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago

Sandra voted for Trump three times

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

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

It sounds like from the article that he never finished his immigration paperwork...

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago
[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day 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!

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

fuck this dumb fuck

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 23 hours ago

They wanted this for other people. If it's good enough for other people, it should be good enough for them.

[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

When has it ever been a gif?

[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Haha, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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