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ICE agents eat breakfast, compliment chef, then arrest 3 workers at Michigan restaurant
Chicago Tribune ^ | 5/27/2017 | AP

Posted on 05/27/2017 5:51:49 AM PDT by RummyChick

The owner of a Michigan restaurant said U.S. immigration agents who were conducting enforcement at the business ate breakfast — and complimented the chef — before arresting three workers, according to media reports on Thursday.

The Ann Arbor News reported that two of the men arrested Wednesday at Sava's Restaurant remain in custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said agents were doing "a targeted enforcement action" at the Ann Arbor restaurant.

ICE officials said two of the men entered the country illegally and another overstayed his visa. Authorities said the men tried to leave the restaurant before being arrested. Another man was handcuffed and briefly detained, then released after showing agents his permanent resident card.

Restaurant owner Sava Lelcaj told the newspaper several agents came to the restaurant near the University of Michigan, and two ate breakfast at the restaurant bar. One ate waffles and bacon and the other eggs and toast. Lelcaj said they praised the food before entering the kitchen area.

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1 posted on 05/27/2017 5:51:49 AM PDT by RummyChick
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2 posted on 05/27/2017 5:57:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("Daddy, what did you do in the Deep State War?")
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I guess the manager should have verified their work status before hiring them. Why didn’t the manager also get arrested for hiring illegals?


3 posted on 05/27/2017 5:58:23 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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How were the eggs cooked? Scrambled? Over easy? What did they drink? Coffee? Milk? Dammit. What happened to good old fashioned journalism?


4 posted on 05/27/2017 6:00:19 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Probably left a hefty tip as well.


5 posted on 05/27/2017 6:04:29 AM PDT by C210N
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The owner of a Michigan restaurant said U.S. immigration agents who were conducting enforcement at the business ate breakfast — and complimented the chef — before arresting three workers,

...

How cool is that?


6 posted on 05/27/2017 6:04:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Why didn’t the manager also get arrested for hiring illegals?
Good question. If the penalty for hiring illegals was about $100K per head, no one would hire them and they'd all self-deport.
7 posted on 05/27/2017 6:06:19 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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That is just ICE cold.


8 posted on 05/27/2017 6:07:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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The only thing cooler is if they had complimented the chef..and then arrested him for being illegal.


9 posted on 05/27/2017 6:17:38 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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That’s a good sugestion for Pres DJT. He can make it part of the next E.O..


10 posted on 05/27/2017 6:20:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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Obviously not a Muslim run establishment if they served Waffles with BACON.


11 posted on 05/27/2017 6:21:29 AM PDT by DaveA37
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Loving it.


12 posted on 05/27/2017 6:33:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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He can make it part of the next E.O.
Actually, all he has to do is start talking about it now. That'll start the ball rolling - fast.
13 posted on 05/27/2017 6:36:50 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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If the penalty for hiring illegals was about $100K per head, no one would hire them and they'd all self-deport.

My thoughts exactly. And we wouldn't need a multi-billion dollar wall that the Democrats are just going to have doors installed all over the place anyways.

14 posted on 05/27/2017 6:37:24 AM PDT by Drew68
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I guess the manager should have verified their work status before hiring them
= = = = = = = = = = = =
Not always as easy as it sounds.
You can only ask so many questions and if a person hands you a SS card you pretty much have to accept it as you can get a discrimination charge levied at you.
‘We’ aren’t the only smart ones...Say a guy named Jose Martinez gives you a SS card, ‘doesn’t speak much English’ and you - so you don’t get fined - Check him out and sure enough THAT Jose Martinez and his brother HoseB were born in Detroit ..... That will bring the govt & ACLU & anti discrimination groups down on you....

So the BIG catch is that you can’t really check them out yet when biggov drops in on you, break out your checkbook.

Old ‘joke/story’ about Bobby Kennedy going to play tough when JFK had vowed to END discrimination as we knew it.

RFK stormed into a plant in Georgia and with his New England/Liberal arrogance loudly proclaimed that if the company was not in compliance with the 20% of all employees were not minority there would be ‘hell to pay’. The company prez called in his secretary and asked for the roster.
Turning towards RFK he says ‘Been waiting for you - I have 1000 employees and you say 200 have to be approved minorities’ he turned to his secretary and said
‘I have marked ALL the minorities with a red pen. Since I have 450 minorities, start with the A’s and fire the first 250 checked names so I can get within the Government Guidelines’.


15 posted on 05/27/2017 6:38:23 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Ask the experienced rather than the learned")
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Simply wanted to do their job on a full stomach.


16 posted on 05/27/2017 6:38:41 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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ICE agents eat breakfast, compliment chef, then arrest 3 workers at Michigan restaurant

Most smile inducing headline since, "Panda Eats, Shoots and Leaves".

17 posted on 05/27/2017 6:54:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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As a Swiss-American”, can I be counted as a minority too?


18 posted on 05/27/2017 7:05:00 AM PDT by Does so (Why is it that 2nd-generation Muslims are doing all the killing?)
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I always ran a SSN verification on everybody.


19 posted on 05/27/2017 7:06:10 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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I hate working on an empty stomach.

Much outrage about just duties.

The 2 detained knew they were here illegally and deceived the owner.


20 posted on 05/27/2017 7:23:54 AM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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