Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown
An imam’s detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town
Stephen Starr in Hamilton, Ohio
Sat 2 Aug 2025 08.00 EDT
For 50 long years, life in Hamilton, a town of 63,000 people a half-hour north of Cincinnati, was in decline.
Factories closed and thousands of residents moved away to Cincinnati, Columbus and beyond. The scourge of the opioid epidemic during the early 2000s sucked the life out of Butler county’s seat of government.
But then, slowly, immigrants came to town. And things began to get better.
Inside Mary’s Comida Casera, an unadorned Mexican restaurant serving Guanajuato food on Hamilton’s southside, a telenovela plays on a pair of televisions while two elementary-age kids watch cartoons on a tablet in the corner.
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