What happened when ICE agents descended on East Boston stores

• Immigration advocates and local elected officials have held "Know Your Rights" seminars and passed around suggestion cards since President Trump's inauguration, drawing the ire of border czar Tom Homan.

Catch up quick: ICE visited several Eastie businesses on Feb. 13, GBH News reported.

• The store owners and employees said the visits came after reports of people working without work permits.
• ICE told GBH News they didn't investigate further after speaking with managers and reviewing documents.

Yes, but: Business owners and employees said they never handed over any documents.

• They also said the ICE agents showed no judicial warrants or documentation authorizing such a review.

What they're saying: "I remembered my rights and told the man, 'I'm not obligated to respond to your questions,'" said Yhoana Zapata, who works at El Cambio Latino.

The big picture: Businesses in majority-immigrant neighborhoods are becoming targets of federal immigration agents seeking to detain locals without work permits, despite the Trump administration's claims that they would go after the hardest criminals.

• Business owners in these neighborhoods have also suffered a drop in foot traffic in the past six weeks, WBUR reported.

The other side: Homan blasted U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Fox News last month for holding a "Know Your Rights" webinar.

• "She can call it education all she wants, but we all know it's about evading law enforcement," he said.