‘The people are kind of afraid,’ Mine Jewelry owner Minerva Torres said. ‘This week, it’s like I feel it in the air.’
CLEVELAND — CentroVilla25 on West 25th Street in Cleveland is open for business.
“We want everyone to come here. We want everyone to feel comfortable,” Dino Tovanche, owner of Café Roig inside the market, says. “We want everyone to enjoy everything that it is.”
Many have enjoyed the multicultural foods and shopping, but recently, many regular patrons are afraid to leave their homes in light of the recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.
“This is something that’s going to impact just not (sic) our community,” Tovanche, a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Mexico, told 3News. “This is an impact across the United States.”
The raids have occurred in cities from Chicago to Miami to even Cleveland Heights, where six employees from Cilantro Taqueria in Coventry Village were among those detained by ICE …