U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said his office is working to assist Ohio families devastated by a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raid, targeting a large nursery, that resulted in over 100 arrests, including at least one U.S. citizen minor:
He told reporters it's "immoral" and "an insane policy" to separate small children from their families, as the arrests of 114 workers at Corso's Flower & Garden Center did, and to deport civilians to places they fled because of violence.
"Tearing families apart will not fix our broken immigration system," said Brown. "It will mean more problems for all of us. There is no good reason, ever, to separate children from their parents."
"This is a major humanitarian crisis unfolding," said immigrant rights advocate Veronica Dahlberg, whose organization, HOLA Ohio, came to immediate aid of families. "In some cases, both sets of parents were seized, and we know of many children left with babysitters, including babies and toddlers."
”All I could think about was my mom, because I didn’t know where she was at,” Salma Sabala, a Corso’s employee, told The Washington Post before breaking down into tears.