{"id":363807,"date":"2026-08-05T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:56:09","slug":"miami-chef-on-chilling-effect-of-immigration-policy-tps-causes-worker-shortage-ice-detention-scares-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363807\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami chef on chilling effect of immigration policy: TPS causes worker shortage; ICE detention scares customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM<\/p>\n<p>Video shows ICE agents detaining scooter rider outside Chef Creole in Little Haiti<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A witness recorded a video showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopping a man who was riding a scooter and detaining him on Aug. 2 in Miami\u2019s Little Haiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Haitian-Bahamian Chef Wilkinson \u201cKen\u201d Sejour said ICE agents detained the scooter rider steps away from his restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/chefcreole.com\/store\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/chefcreole.com\/store\/\">Chef Creole<\/a>, at 200 NW 54th St., and his customers were staying away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sejour, whose celebrity guests include the late Anthony Bourdain, said the witness\u2019s video recorded near the drive-thru area prompted false rumors that ICE had raided his restaurant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou are taking key people, and now you are giving people the impression that it\u2019s not even safe to come to my business,\u201d Sejour said about the impact of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sejour said the expiration of TPS work permits for Haitians hurt his workforce. His labor expenses had increased before the recent ICE detention nearby scared away customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 25 allowed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected Status for about 300,000 Haitians on July 27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gov. Ron DeSantis has been supportive of President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policy and has expanded state-federal partnerships in Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sejour is among the entrepreneurs in South Florida who say the push for deportations has been having a chilling effect on their businesses. Sejour called for a strategic reassessment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s take a little bit more time, let\u2019s try to figure out how we can fix this without it hurting our economy as a whole,\u201d Sejour said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christian De La Rosa\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/59a14089-8518-45b5-b7.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christian De La Rosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christian De La Rosa joined Local 10 News in April 2017 after spending time as a reporter and anchor in Atlanta, San Diego, Orlando and Panama City Beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM Updated:\u00a0August 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM Video shows ICE agents detaining scooter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-363807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}