Midwest Mexican, a Substack publication by journalist Serena Maria Daniels, reports that a team member at Vecino, one of Detroit’s celebrated restaurants, was detained by ICE, prompting an outpouring of community support. Staff and colleagues organized a fundraising raffle at a holiday market to help cover legal and related costs for the detained worker. The effort, led by Vecino’s front-of-house manager, drew donations from numerous Detroit restaurants and grew from a private support effort into a broader moment of solidarity across the city’s restaurant community.

The channel No Detention Centers in Michigan presents firsthand testimony from a detained person describing racially targeted verbal and physical abuse at the GEO Group’s North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. According to the testimony, an officer identified as Sheaks singled out Black detainees for mistreatment, and when one man resisted verbal abuse, the officer shoved him into his cell, closed the door on his hand, and struck him. The video notes that hundreds of people detained at the facility had gone on hunger strike in April 2026 over conditions there.