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

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.