The dream turns into a nightmare of the Middle West city in the grip of immigrants from us Ohio star-news.press/wp

For 50 years, life was in Hamilton, a town with a population of 63,000 people half an hour north of Cincinnati, declining.

The factories closed and thousands of residents moved to Cincinnati and Columbus and outside. The pest of the opioid epidemic during the early first decade of the twentieth century absorbed life from the government headquarters in Bater Province.

But then, slowly, the immigrants came to the city. Things began to improve.

Inside Mary’s Comida Casera, a non -decorated Mexican restaurant that serves Guanajuato food in Hamilton’s Southside, Telenovela plays a pair of TVs while two children in the primary era watch cartoons on a tablet in the corner.

The restaurant, which was previously a 136 -year -old residential property, along with dozens of cafes, stores and companies in Latin America in the Jefferson and Riviervio neighborhood, helped restore life to Southside Hamilton.

This month, the increasing presence of society was recognized when the title of a huge mural painting Long live the long dream Live the dream – opened in the Jefferson neighborhood.

“As a brown woman called this city to the house for more than two decades, and seeing public art that reflects our stories, our struggle and our dreams, was moving incredible,” says Mitzi Hernandez, a community leader who moved from Mexico City to Hamilton 23 years ago.

“I felt as if we were finally seen.”

almost Four of 10 Residents in a group of statistics spaces are known directly west and south in the center of Hamilton as Spanish origin. Despite its relatively small size, the number of people in the city Language Unlike the English language at home almost twice the average Ohio.

Not only immigrants contribute to the renewal of life in Hamilton through Festivals Societal awareness, their income, its properties and business taxes work to fill the treasures of the local and state authorities.

But in the center of the neighborhood, the throwing of the stone is located across a herbaceous area of Mary Comeda Casira, a place that increases fear in the hearts of migrants in Hamilton: Bater County Prison.

A report issued by News Newspaper Prison list analysis On July 8, I found that among the 384 people were arrested at the time, there were more than 90 % of immigration charges.

“There is a real and increasing concern,” says Hernandez.

“This fear is not limited to Spanish society only – it affects all migrant groups.”

Richard Jones, an explicit sheriff, is running among his long list of anti -immigration policies recently joking that while Florida has a “crocodile”, his city has it.Quagmire– Publishing puffed crocodile photos in prison to his Facebook page this month. Many local population and law groups are called “Cruel”.

Jones and his division enjoy the anti -immigration correspondence with great support among the locals. Since 2004, he has won each elections for Sherif, often prevailing by three to three margins or operation without opposition. It has appeared on Fox News Call death penalty For drug dealers.

But his controversial views go beyond just the speech.

The detention of hundreds of people who accuse immigration fees earn more than 24,000 dollars a day or $ 720,000 per month as fees paid by the United States for Migration and Customs (ICE) – at the highest $ 36 per hour in transportation fees, the prison fee earns snow.

At the Bater Province of this month, Sharif’s office was shown It included two distorted cars She participated in a fatal collision last year due to an illegal immigrant from Mexico, which was more than twice the level of alcohol. Why did you choose this and not any of the other 31 killer incidents that occurred in the boycott last year are not clear-emails, calls, audio mails and a personal visit to the Guardian failed to secure an interview with Jones.

On the other side of the prison walls, there is Iman Suleiman, the Egyptian Mawlid Imam, and its headquarters, which was detained this month after the end of his long -term situation.

His imprisonment on July 9, which is allegedly related to the membership of a group associated with the connection of the Muslim Brotherhood-is a banned organization in Egypt but not by the United States-provoked equipment, fear and anger escalates, and violent responses to protests in southwest Ohio.

Solomon’s detention and the flow of anger that followed is a symbol of the broader division in American society, among those who believe that the Trump administration’s repressive policies are the key to preserving the country’s safe, and those who believe that immigrants are the cornerstone of the American way of life.

During a court session in the court on July 22, Suleiman appeared through the video link in the yellow and white prison suit wearing brown glasses, salt and salt salt. When the immigration judge was asked if he needed a refusal translator.

Solomon’s quiet behavior during the session swings what is at stake for him.

If he is deported to Egypt, he may face death penalty; This month, an Egyptian news outlet Accuse Being a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which he carried out severely.

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His diligence has fueled anger at the anger associated with the police, the charge of felony and the apparently improvised shooting.

On July 17, Madeleine Tenning and interior photography Lucas Griffiths, Two journalists in the cityAmong the 15 people were arrested on charges of riots in a felony after a peaceful protest in the center of Cincinnati against Suleiman’s detention.

Arrests clips The demonstrators who walk through the John Ann Bing Bridge appear in front of the Kentucky police, whose jurisdiction extends through the bridges of the Ohio River in the city, over and over again. PunchShoot on pepper balls and subject many participants.

While the crime charges were initially dropped against the correspondents (the police Claim Journalists “Participate intentionally in riots”), they still face several misdemeanors.

In an environment in which the Trump administration has repeatedly pledged to follow up on the media elements that it considers anti -sites, the press freedom groups attacked the charges.

“Our customers were taking their jobs and they should be arrested in the first place,” said William Sharp, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, who defends journalists.

“The free press is very important to job democracy, and these are members of the press who, like our customers, are just covering a story with the full protection of the constitutions of the United States and Kentucky to do so. We look forward to defending them enthusiastically in court.”

Journalists and others face a preliminary hearing on August 14.

“Journalists and the press are threatened … it is disappointing that our efforts to cover a protest of misinterpretation intentionally as riots,” Ashley Moore, City Pitt Editor, said in a statement presented by the Civil Liberties Union in Kentucky.

“The suggestion that we were a riot and designed to intimidate us in silence and collusion.”

All the time, the Kentura Zakari Stone Police Department, the officer who has repeatedly included the participant in the protest Brandon Hill, In administrative leave With payment, awaiting the investigation. Stayton was previously the topic a 2023 lawsuits For excessive use of strength.

In a preliminary hearing of Hill, who was transferred to the hospital due to the severity of his injuries and who is still one of the four demonstrators who are still facing criminal charges, and the judge refused to present a video of punching, male“The officer’s testimony is sufficient.”

This is the function of my dreams‘

no Solomon’s former colleagues They survived the penalty shown to talk about his scoliosis.

Over the past decade, Reverend Lesi Diop was worked as a measure at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and four of those years he spent alongside Suleiman.

Diop, one of three people, asked Suleiman to allow him in prison: “The children of Centinati have patients from all over the world and a few of the Middle East. It is a great thing that traveling to a new country has a new culture to obtain medical care – it’s the most exhausting time.”

“The joy in the eyes of someone, and the joy they take (care) of children; he had that.”

When Diop heard that Suleiman had been arrested, she was shocked.

“He is not a person talking a lot about himself, but early, he said:” I came from Egypt to the United States to save my life. “

Five days after his detention, Suleiman visited in prison. After days, after An interview By a local television station – a step that I believed was explicitly cleared by employers – DIOP was launched from the hospital.

“I spoke shortly to my managers and managers, and we decided to deal with PTO and meet outside the campus and do not wear any equipment (for the hospital) (for the TV interview),” she says.

“I was talking about a former employee and some special interaction about visiting a friend who was registered.” When Diop reached work in the morning after broadcasting the interview, her director told her that she was facing serious disciplinary measures to violate the media policy.

“This is the function of my dreams. It is a large part of my identity,” she says.

“I was here 10 years ago, and I had no disciplinary action,” she says.

Diop is still confused why she was expelled.

“Did you mess with a donor? Have you caused (hospital) to fear the repercussions from the Trump administration? I have no answer, but these are the things that I thought about it.”

Diop is not alone.

Days after Adam Allen, another priest at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, attended the protest that preceded the bridge protest, and the hospital launched it.

“They shoot people to speak,” Allen He said Enquirer.

It is considered a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital One of the best hospitals In the United States and receives Hundreds of millions From the dollars of the federal government every year for treatment and research. In March, the hospital was one of three healthcare facilities Investigation by the federal government Regarding discrimination fees for programs aimed at helping students from minority backgrounds.

“We are not commenting on the current or former employees,” a spokesman for the Children’s Cincinnati Hospital replied in the Guardian inquiries asking why Diop and Eline were expelled.

Returning to Hamilton, leaders of Spanish societies feel panic because of this step last month to Allow local law enforcement employees In Bater County to do the work of ICE agents, such as detention of people and their arrest, suspected they are not documented immigrants. At least 10 deputies in Bater Province have participated in a 40 -hour training program.

With nearly three -quarters of the residents of Hamilton born abroad, not American citizens, the overwhelming majority of society lives in fear.

“There is concern, especially since we see the ice activity increasing in other states,” says Hernandez.

“But our society is incredibly flexible. We have faced hardship before. Moving to a new country in search of a better life takes courage, and despite fear, people are still moving forward. The most important thing we can do is exposure together.”

There are signs that Republicans in Bater Province, where nearly 63 % of the voters supported Trump in the presidential elections in November, unstable with the Jones and White House of anti -immigrants.

On Friday, the Prosecutor of the Bater Province, Mike Jemuser, is announced for himself.Conservative RepublicHe warned of “possible responsibility” and the legal effects on the leaders of the provinces and the authorities to imprison hundreds of people in immigration instead of criminal charges, and he said that he requested the opinion of the state prosecutor.

Last week, Suleiman filed a lawsuit challenging the end of his asylum, and the next court session was appointed on August 12, with his detention in Bater County Prison for more than a month.