They went to a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020. Sandra Hafraoui, 53, voted for the president three times: in 2016, 2020 and again in 2024. Her husband, Abdellatif, was right there with her, a Moroccan-born man who had spent 38 years building a life in New Jersey and believed, as his wife did, that Trump's immigration push was aimed at dangerous criminals. Not people like him.
That belief did not survive 11 August 2025, the morning ICE agents stopped the couple at Newark Liberty International Airport as they were about to board a flight to Fort Myers, Florida. Three men in plain clothes and a woman with a badge approached them. Abdellatif was handcuffed, placed into an unmarked van and driven away. Sandra was left standing at the gate with their luggage, with no idea where her husband had been taken. An airport worker noticed her crying and handed her a bottle of water. That was the last moment of normality for a very long time.
