Overview
- ICE arrested Abdellatif Hafraoui at Newark Liberty International Airport in August as he left for vacation, moved him from New Jersey’s Delaney Hall to facilities in Louisiana and Arizona, and released him on Nov. 26 on a $15,000 bond.
- He is required to wear an electronic ankle monitor, surrender his Moroccan passport, and report regularly to ICE, and he has not been allowed to return to his concierge job.
- Hafraoui says the detention traces to a hearing he never knew about after hiring attorney Earl Seth David, who was later convicted in an immigration fraud scheme.
- His wife, Sandra Hafraoui, a longtime Trump voter who attended a 2020 rally, now says the president "ruined our life."
- DHS has reported more than 605,000 deportations and about 1.9 million self-deportations, placing the couple’s experience within a wider escalation of immigration enforcement.