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These stories have a kind of surreal quality, like a Kafka novel. They feel fake because it's difficult to imagine how a person could be this delusional. We explain our experience by generating an internal narrative and this woman's narrative diverged from reality a very great deal while she watched fox news and then came crashing back in the form of a giant legal bill and an unemployed husband. Could have been much worse.
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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.
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.
Typical that they’d go to the GFM grift.
Yeah it sure would be nice if immigrants were treated like people with rights instead of problems to be managed
The face-eating leopards are feasting
“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.
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."
His name sounds Persian, not Arab. Still resoundingly stupid for him to support trump though.
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Sandra and Abdellatif were staunch supporters of President Donald Trump. They even flew to Las Vegas to attend a Trump rally in 2020.
Stupid is too kind of a word.
Why are Americans this dumb?
Look up "the southern strategy". They targeted poor rural areas for indoctrination, and it's paying dividends two decades later.
and what's more, this rural/urban division is being deployed across the world to shift the whole world authoritarian
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.
If he doesn't like Trump then he probably
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.
These stupid assholes will never change their minds.
This dumb cunt and her husband will both immediately go back to supporting Trump tomorrow.
Bet somebody showed her project 2025 and she called them delusional
Almost 100% likelihood.
"yeah but Donald Trump said he doesn't know anything about it"
That's a losing bet to take...only a maga would take that bet.
Boo — and I can’t stress this enough — fuckinghoo. You get what you voted for.
Sandra voted for Trump three times
Don't worry, once 2028 rolls around, she'll vote for him a fourth time.
"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.
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.
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
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
fuck this dumb fuck
The ONLY way to Stop Trump from KIDNAPPING and DEPORTING my Family is to VOTE for Trump AGAIN!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican you Read about!
I always thought it was criminal to be this stupid, so does that count?
Are you the only ones ever in the history of man that were in the faschist protected elite group they will not target and kill? no? Then the leopards may feast
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When has it ever been a gif?
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?
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.
My mom got citizenship at around 5 years after getting legal permanent residency, you can send the paperwork like 3-6 months before the 5 year mark and they process it as soon as you are eligible.
I thonk the test happened right after the 5 year msrk and the Oath ceremony is like 1 month after I think.
This was during Obama Admin
I was a minor at the time so I automatically got citizenship from my mother
As for green card visas, yes that took like more than a decade, the petition for my parents started before I was even born. But for citizenship is usually 5 years of legal permanent residency.
The article said he lived in the country for like a few decades, and he applied for naturalization 10 years before... why didnt he finish the process? Kinda confused... not trying to victim blame, just confused...
The only reason why you couldn't go through with it is if your English isn't good enough or if you can't memorize test questions... like my dad (👀 uh oh... hope he doesn't run into ICE)
but this dude married a US Citizen so this implied he does speak English with enough proficiency to pass the interviews.
So I'm confused af
I wish there were more info, these articles always lack the full picture.
lol fuck them to hell and back. They obviously wanted this.
They wanted this for other people. If it's good enough for other people, it should be good enough for them.
Turns out that most GOP voters are criminals or are married to criminals?
Haha, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
It sounds like from the article that he never finished his immigration paperwork...
Seeing the results after a year, voting for Trump should be considered treason. So they actually went after a criminal.
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