As immigration agents raided factories and other workplaces across the United States last June, staff at a Meta café in Bellevue, Washington, made a pact: They would rally together if the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown affected any one of them. In December, the agreement met its first test.
Under a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities had detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue. “I didn’t know what to do at first, but we had this community, and I told them this news,” Mbengue says through a coworker who is translating his French.
A number of the cooks, dishwashers, and front-of-house staff at
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