A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents
The initial post was marked as “urgent” and tagged two Meta executives who focus on immigration issues and employee risk, in an attempt to escalate the issue to them.The current status of the detained worker is unknown.A spokesperson for Meta, Dave Arnold, declined to comment on the record. Representatives from ICE and the US Department of Homeland Security did not provide comment in time for publication. It is unclear whether the employee was detained by ICE, Customs and Border Protection, or another agency.Internal messages reviewed by WIRED indicate employees believe their former colleague was being detained in El Paso, Texas, where there is a major US-Mexico border crossing.
- ▪The initial post was marked as “urgent” and tagged two Meta executives who focus on immigration issues and employee risk, in an attempt to escalate the issue to them.The current status of the detained worker is unknown.A spokesperson for Me
- ▪Representatives from ICE and the US Department of Homeland Security did not provide comment in time for publication.
- ▪It is unclear whether the employee was detained by ICE, Customs and Border Protection, or another agency.Internal messages reviewed by WIRED indicate employees believe their former colleague was being detained in El Paso, Texas, where there
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Lauren GoodeParesh DaveLouise MatsakisBusinessJun 10, 2026 3:49 PMA Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration AgentsColleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on May 15, 2026.Photograph: Tayfun Coskun/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyA former Meta employee who lost their job during a round of layoffs on May 20 is said to have been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent days, according to communications inside the company seen by WIRED.A current employee posted about the incident on an internal Meta messaging board for immigration topics this week.
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