Detentions and disappearances: how ICE has driven fear into Michigan’s Arab communities
Source: US news | The Guardian · Bias: Center Left
Summary
Arab Americans in Dearborn and beyond are being swept up by ICE at places of worship and work, with devastating consequencesLorenda Lewis is so tired she can barely keep her head straight. Surrounded by her six young children at a cafe in Dearborn, Michigan, she recounts the nightmare of the past four months that saw her husband, Abdelouahid Aouchiche, an Algerian national, taken away.It was still dark when, at about 5.15am last October, her 61-year-old husband and 12-year-old son, Abdullah, arrived at the Furqan mosque for morning prayers. Abdullah recalls his father being approached by two men outside the mosque, grabbing him and asking for his papers. After a brief conversation, he says he was allowed to call his mother and told to go inside the mosque by the agents. When she arrived minutes later, her husband and the agents were gone. Continue reading...
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