"He started off as a dishwasher, and then we realized we didn't really need a dishwasher and he ended up quitting once he got his hours cut,"
"But we made a promise to him that we'd bring him back in any way we could, and we were able to do that months later."
"He was the nicest person I'd ever met. Anytime that we needed him to do something, to go above and beyond, we'd try to thank him and he'd say, 'It's fine. You're my family.' He considered us his family."
"As far as I know-and I don't know a ton-he was detained while at a gas station and had his window busted open and was grabbed from his car,"
Miguel Alvarado-Lopez worked at Moonshot Tavern in Northeast Portland, starting as a dishwasher and later returning as a cook. Coworkers described him as kind and family-oriented, willing to go above and beyond. On January 24 he and his brother-in-law were detained by immigration enforcement at a gas station; agents allegedly broke a car window and pulled him from the vehicle. He was moved to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma and later transferred to Arizona. He is awaiting deportation to Guatemala, where his wife and son live, and a GoFundMe has been created for his family. Advocacy groups say vehicle detentions by ICE are becoming more common.
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