PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — At the Das Good Cafe on Chelten Avenue in Germantown, Anh Vongbandith is usually on the catering side, but after her husband Anou was detained by ICE last weekend, she had to split her time between catering and the cafe’s kitchen.
“He jokes around that, you know, we met when I went to the Bellevue Hotel, I was the manager there, and we didn’t date until I went to the Omni Hotel, but he tells everybody I was his boss then and I’m still his boss now,” Anh said.
That was in Florida, where the Vongbandiths first dropped roots, and where Anou first encountered ICE as a Laotian refugee…