The co-owner of Kabuki Sushi in Flint, Michigan, is sitting in a detention facility tonight after ICE picked him up, and the restaurant has closed its doors for now. MSN has the basics.

Not much has been released about the arrest itself. ICE hasn't put out a press release on this one, so the charge history, the country of origin, and whether a detainer is involved are all unknown. What we know is the co-owner is being held at a Michigan detention facility and the sushi bar he ran is shuttered until further notice.

That's usually how it goes when an enforcement action lands on a small business. The workplace doesn't get a press conference. It gets a lock on the door and a sign in the window. Regulars show up, find the place dark, and start asking questions on local Facebook groups.

Some context for folks who don't follow the enforcement side. When ICE detains someone, the person goes to a processing center first, then to a holding facility if they're staying in custody. Michigan detainees often end up at the Batavia service processing center in New York or one of the contracted county jails in the region. Removal proceedings follow, unless the person has a prior removal order, in which case things move a lot faster. Expedited removal applies to some cases too. That one skips the judge entirely.

The advocates will frame this as a family torn from their livelihood. The honest framing is simpler: somebody was in the country illegally, ICE found him, and now he's in custody. If he had legal status, he wouldn't be in a holding cell. Candlelight vigils don't change that arithmetic.

I spent 26 years in the Border Patrol and I never once saw a business close because an owner followed the law. The closing is a consequence of the choice, same as it ever was. Every arrest in the interior starts with somebody who crossed a border they weren't supposed to cross or overstayed a visa they were supposed to honor. Everything after that is paperwork.

Whether Kabuki Sushi reopens depends on what happens in immigration court and whether the remaining ownership can run it without him. Some places bounce back. Many don't. That's a business story, and it'll sort itself out the way business stories do.

The count moves one higher in Michigan. Somebody will call that cruel. I call it the law working exactly as written.