A Taiwanese native and line cook well known in the Dallas restaurant community was detained U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal records show.
ICE records list Chih-Ming Feng as detained in the South Texas Processing Center, a detention facility in Pearsall. Feng, also known as "Petey," was attending a routine immigration check-in on Nov. 2 at the time of his detention, according to the Dallas Morning News.
It’s not clear why Feng was detained, but in a 2016 interview with the News, he said he was initially denied a visitor’s visa in 2002 due to past military service in Taiwan. He was later granted a student visa. He landed at a culinary school and began his career as a cook after bouncing around several universities in Texas.
Attorney information for Feng was not immediately available.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
