12/16/2024

Immigration Fears in the Buckeye State

In Ohio, an immigrant community prepares for an ICE crackdown

In Painesville, Ohio, Veronica Isabel Dahlberg looked out at dozens of familiar faces gathered in a new community center on a recent Monday evening, all of them anxious for answers she did not have.

What would happen to the immigrants and farmworkers in this swath of northeastern Ohio? An estimated 130,000 undocumented immigrants live in Ohio.

Dahlberg, who has worked with the community for nearly three decades, could not say whether President-elect Donald Trump would follow through on his pledge to carry out mass deportations. But she reminded the audience what his first term looked like here.

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