Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raided a restaurant in Washington, D.C., owned by Geoff Tracy, the husband of CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell, on Tuesday.
According to Fox 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered “Chef Geoff’s” restaurant in D.C. on Tuesday morning and asked to see the I-9 forms of the restaurant’s staff members, prompting the staff members to panic. The outlet noted that the restaurant is owned by Geoff Tracy, who is the husband of CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell.
Fox 5 reported that roughly a dozen law enforcement officials and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wearing Department of Homeland Security uniforms entered the restaurant at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The outlet noted that while no individuals were arrested at the restaurant, the law enforcement officials and federal agents remained at Chef Geoff’s for roughly 90 minutes.
A picture of Chef Geoff’s restaurant was shared Tuesday by Fox 5 anchor Homa Bash on X, formerly Twitter.
Fox 5 reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have recently visited multiple other restaurants, including restaurants located in D.C.’s Columbia Heights and Dupont Circle.
According to Fox 5, “Millie’s” restaurant told the outlet that seven federal agents visited the restaurant on Tuesday and requested to see the staff’s I-9 forms. The outlet reported that the warrant used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at Millie’s was not signed by a judge but was signed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
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“It’s very high anxiety, anxiety-inducing,” Isa, a resident of Washington, D.C., told Fox 5. “I think it’s really terrible right now that ICE is taking people and sending them away to El Salvador and these other countries to what are basically concentration camps.”
In a statement obtained by Fox 5, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed that she had heard reports of ICE officials raiding local restaurants and claimed that the ICE officials were “disrupting” the community.
“I have heard those reports. I’ve been getting them all morning,” Bowser said. “I am disturbed by them. It appears as though ICE is at restaurants, or even at neighborhoods, and it doesn’t look like they’re targeting criminals, and it does look like they’re disrupting.”
