COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Amid heightened ICE operations in Columbus, immigrant business owners and community leaders gathered Tuesday at the Global Mall on Morse Road warning it’s hurting both families and their livelihoods.
“In some of these businesses, we’re seeing ICE agents are parked at the front literally to disenfranchise these businesses who are legal, who are taxpayers, who are employers,” CAIR-Ohio Executive Director Khalid Turaani said.
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Speakers said fear is keeping customers away and entire communities on edge. They said they chose the location of the news conference intentionally. They said the Global Mall, a shopping destination primarily serving Columbus’ large Somali community, represents years of investment by immigrant families.
“We are citizens,” Mohamed Ali said. “We are taxpayers.”…