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Leaving MAGA's Rich Logis and Sandra Hafraoui: WCPT 820 Interview
Richard Chew is joined by Leaving MAGA's Rich Logis and Sandra Hafraoui. Here are a few highlights from the conversation:- Logis said election results and messages from former MAGA supporters suggest growing doubts about the movement; he described Leaving MAGA as a bridge for people seeking to leave.- He said the Republican Party faces a reckoning: How can it disentangle itself from MAGA?- Hafraoui described growing up in a sheltered, Republican household and later questioning her support for Trump, including conflicts with her Christian faith and concerns about unfulfilled promises.- She said her husband was detained by ICE after a prior attorney’s fraud made his immigration case complicated. She described harsh detention conditions and told WCPT that her husband "went through a lot of brutal things in detention." "They tried to force him on a flight illegally to go back to his country," she said. "They tried to force him on a commercial flight, and he refused to get on the flight. [He said,] 'No, I have a case; I have a life; I've lived here for 38 years; I'm not getting on that flight.' And so they brought him back to the detention center, and they put him in solitary confinement, as a punishment, for 10 days, where they turned down the the temperature, so he was freezing. They wouldn't give him a blanket. They wouldn't give him anything to stay warm, and he was shivering so much that he got a pinched nerve in his neck. And then they were not really feeding him. He was telling me he's hungry all the time. They would miss meals or just give them something so little or so disgusting that no human being would want to eat these things. "And then they woke him up in the middle of the night and they transferred him to Louisiana, and they took him to a detention center and they held him there for a week with no shower, no clean clothes, barely fed him, and they just kept telling him that they were processing him . . . and he sat in his same clothes for a week. And everybody was sick there, and he was getting he got sick himself when he was in Louisiana, very sick. They wouldn't give him any medication. They did not care about anything he was going through, and then they took him to Alexandria [Louisiana], which is a deportation hub, and it is considered the, quote, place where immigrants go and disappear, and that's exactly what happened when they transferred him there: He disappeared for a week, and I didn't know where he was. I was about to ready to lose my mind because I didn't know where he was. I don't know if they deported him. I don't know what they were doing to him. And I got the senators and our state representatives involved to try to find out where he was." - Hafraoui said The Marshall Project reported on the experience. Catch "Chew's Views with Richard Chew” weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/chews-views). Follow us: Website: https://heartlandsignal.com WCPT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WCPT820 Heartland Signal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeartlandSignal Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heartlandsignal Heartland Signal X: https://x.com/HeartlandSignal WCPT 820 X: https://x.com/WCPT820 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartlandsignal Threads: threads.com/@heartlandsignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heartlandsignal See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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