""I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people," clothing store owner Sahra Sharif told the Minnesota Reformer, explaining that she voted for Trump because he was "against the LGBTQ agenda." The mall her business is in gets few customers, and she only opens her store for several hours a day, hoping to earn enough to pay the rent, as Minneapolis is overrun with ICE agents who have taken to detaining any person of color they find in public alone."
""Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?" Sharif said. She then recounted how that happened. She didn't vote in the past, but in 2024, she was visited by some volunteers for the Trump-Vance campaign who told her that "Trump would be good for business and against the LGBTQ agenda." "I was immediately hooked," Sharif said, and she voted for Trump."
Sahra Sharif, a Somali American clothing store owner and U.S. citizen, voted for Donald Trump in 2024 after volunteers said he would be against the LGBTQ agenda and good for business. She now regrets that vote as aggressive ICE enforcement in Minneapolis has led to detentions of people of color, arrests of several family members, and the deportation of her son to Somalia. Her mall receives few customers, she limits store hours to try to pay rent, and she carries her passport constantly out of fear. She describes feeling that the policies she supported have harmed her family and community.
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