DALLAS — A now-former manager at the Downtown Dallas location of White Rhino Coffee has gone viral thanks to an Instagram post in which she announced her resignation from the coffee company because she claimed she was told to offer ICE agents discounts.
Margot Stacy’s Thursday morning social media post stirred up a controversy leading to several actions over the span of the last five days. Almost a dozen employees across the local coffee shop chain joined Stacy in quitting. Celebrities voiced their support on social media for her stance. And the company she had worked for until that day has since issued two separate statements in response.
Stacy wrote in her publicly shared resignation letter that she took the role initially to make the location “a place of community and success,” and that she and her team had steered the café to profitability while creating a safe, cheerful shop people loved to visit. But two weeks ago, Stacy wrote, she brought a safety concern to higher-ups regarding the presence of ICE agents in the Dallas-Fort Worth region…