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.
They assumed that MAGA would be going after the people they hate, because they spend so much of their time wallowing in that hate, that it’s all they think about.
But hate is dangerous, it spreads, and gets out of control, and it doesn’t care who it’s victims are. Now its claiming those who supported it because the indiscriminate hate has reached them.
They unleashed it, now they have to deal with it.