CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — A year ago, some Cleveland Heights residents warned that the immigration raid on the Cilantro Taquiera restaurant was the start of a new era in aggressive enforcement.
Monday, on the one-year anniversary of that raid, nearly 150 demonstrators gathered in calf-deep snow, just a block away, to protest what they see as those fears coming to pass.
“No one is immune from the terror being inflicted by ICE and Homeland Security,” said Kate Gillooly, a minister at Heights Christian Church who spoke during the protest. “The violence is not only being brought upon people with black or brown skin or people whose first language is not English. It is not just people in Minneapolis who have reason to fear.”…