On Saturday, Juan received a photograph from his girlfriend showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting two people outside a Chipotle near San Francisco’s AMC Metreon theater. His girlfriend got it on WhatsApp from a friend who worked nearby.
“I was like, ‘Oh, God,’” said Juan, a restaurant manager and undocumented immigrant from Guanajuato, Mexico, who asked that his last name be withheld for his safety. Juan was driving from San Francisco to work in Oakland when the message came in.Juan quickly warned his colleagues, who passed the alarming photograph along to others.
“I thought, ‘Wow, it looks real,’” Juan said. “I believed it.”…