{"id":68485,"date":"2026-03-09T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/somali-americans-hounded-by-ice-and-rightwing-influencers-on-edge-in-ohio-im-scared-to-go-outside\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:55:00","slug":"somali-americans-hounded-by-ice-and-rightwing-influencers-on-edge-in-ohio-im-scared-to-go-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/somali-americans-hounded-by-ice-and-rightwing-influencers-on-edge-in-ohio-im-scared-to-go-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing \u2018influencers\u2019 on edge in Ohio: \u2018I\u2019m scared to go outside\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICE launched \u2018Operation Buckeye\u2019 and \u2018influencers\u2019 claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language against group in December<\/p>\n<p>The men started showing up at around 6am in late December.<\/p>\n<p>In their cars, they circled the 161 Child Care facility in Columbus, before parking at the front of the building. Then they sat in their cars, opening their windows enough to tell the Somali Americans who own the daycare: \u201cWe\u2019re exposing all of you. Every single one of you, you\u2019re all going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/ohio-ice-somali-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICE launched \u2018Operation Buckeye\u2019 and \u2018influencers\u2019 claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language against group in December The men started showing up at around 6am in late December. In their cars, they circled the 161 Child Care facility in Columbus, before parking at the front of the building. Then they &#8230; <a title=\"Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing \u2018influencers\u2019 on edge in Ohio: \u2018I\u2019m scared to go outside\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/somali-americans-hounded-by-ice-and-rightwing-influencers-on-edge-in-ohio-im-scared-to-go-outside\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing \u2018influencers\u2019 on edge in Ohio: \u2018I\u2019m scared to go outside\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}