Taken by ICE
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She’s a rising star in the city who was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2024 and operates two restaurants and a food truck. But last year, a key employee—who happens to be her brother—was detained by ICE.
“I'm not able to operate the establishment, basically,” Lizotte said. “It's just, it's crazy.”
Lizotte’s experience got us wondering what it's like to run a restaurant, or any business, when a key employee suddenly disappears.
This week on Reveal, producer Katie Mingle and reporter Julia Lurie tell stories about the people swept up in President Donald Trump’s mass deportations and the families that are left behind. We also talk to LA Taco reporter Memo Torres about how immigration raids continue across Los Angeles almost daily, even though the national spotlight moved on months ago.
The first two stories are updates from an episode that originally aired in September 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Al Letton. |
| 0:08.0 | Minneapolis, Maine, Memphis, North Carolina, Chicago, L.A. |
| 0:14.0 | These are just some of the places where masked federal agents have waged battle over the last year. |
| 0:23.1 | A shocking ICE arrest was caught on video. |
| 0:24.4 | Now on the ground. |
| 0:26.2 | On the ground. |
| 0:28.3 | protests are breaking out in response. |
| 0:33.3 | President Trump has a clear message for those that are in our country illegally. |
| 0:34.7 | Leave now. |
| 0:38.1 | Stay indoors when possible and know your rights. |
| 0:40.3 | Do not go out unless necessary. |
| 0:42.9 | Stay at home and do not open the door to stay. Ice and Border Patrol agents are arresting people in front of their kids at school drop-offs, |
| 0:48.6 | on the way to church and at routine check-ins at immigration offices. |
| 0:53.5 | And more and more, they're using violent force. |
| 0:57.0 | They just smashed the window of that SUV, |
| 1:00.0 | and then they forced this man out of the car onto the ground. |
| 1:04.0 | They've shot clergy members in the head with pepper bones. |
| 1:08.0 | They're using tear gas on crowds of peaceful protesters. |
| 1:11.6 | And disturbingly, they have shot and killed multiple people who video evidence suggest pose no harm. |
| 1:21.6 | No! No! Sheep! As the country grapples with the brutal effects of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, |
| 1:35.3 | we're revisiting a show we first brought you last September, |
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