EVERETT, Wash. — Cellphone video shared with Refugees and Immigrant Services Northwest showed men in bulletproof vests, believed by advocates to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, detaining a man in a blue hoodie in a strip-mall parking lot.

The arrest circulated rapidly among the organization’s clients.

“We got the news from one of our clients who was supposed to come here and pick up food,” said Van Kuno, the group’s executive director.

Kuno said many families were already hesitant to attend the organization’s Thanksgiving meal-kit event at Everett Community College. The morning arrest, she said, deepened that fear. Staff members moved quickly to keep vehicles moving through the drive-through line.

“They’re afraid, and we want to move the line as quick as possible just in

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