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Washington Post Whines: ‘Not Many Restaurants Left in D.C.’ if ICE Enforces U.S. Laws
Breitbart ^ | 05/16/2025 | Neil Munro

Posted on 05/16/2025 7:14:28 AM PDT by DFG

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is commiserating with wealthy restaurant owners who are trying to shield their lower-wage, illegal migrant workers from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal migration.

“Owners or operators of four restaurants confirmed to the Washington Post that they had lost employees, whether permanently or temporarily, since DHS agents visited last week,” the newspaper reported.

“If they want to go by the [law] book, there is not many restaurants left in D.C.,” said Luis Reyes, a former illegal migrant from El Salvador who is now the co-owner of a restaurant visited by ICE. He added:

Who will wash dishes? Nobody wants to do that. Only the hard workers, the people who come from Honduras and El Salvador, they happily do that … They want to make money and send [it] to their family.

“Why is DHS focusing on D.C. restaurants?” complained Geoff Tracy, a restaurateur for 25 years.

Most of the article focused on the owners’ opposition to any loss of migrant workers. For example, the article quotes one executive’s letter to the Department of Homeland Security after ICE inspected workers’ records in restaurants:

My hope is to avoid the unnecessary fear-mongering that took place this morning … Our employees have rights, they have been notified of these rights and any further questions or needs should be addressed directly to me.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; labor; restaurants; serviceindustry

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1 posted on 05/16/2025 7:14:28 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Sure, well its the same reason the confederacy had for keeping slaves.


2 posted on 05/16/2025 7:17:26 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: DFG

The Trump Organization is built on hotels, golf courses, and construction.

Even Kagen was wondering why he brought the birthright citizenship EO case combined with a complaint about nationwide injunctions.


3 posted on 05/16/2025 7:18:01 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DFG

Sounds like a collection of massa-s afraid that the plantation won’t run without the [insert appropriate unspeakable word here]


4 posted on 05/16/2025 7:18:27 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: DFG

How did DC ever operate all those years before selling out our sovereignty to foreign invaders?

Did politicians brown bag their lunches?


5 posted on 05/16/2025 7:19:56 AM PDT by dforest
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To: DFG

Fix you own food! Eat at home!.....................


6 posted on 05/16/2025 7:20:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DFG

“Who will pick our cotton?” bump


7 posted on 05/16/2025 7:21:01 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Wherever you have artificially cheap labor, you tend to have poor work conditions. Take away that cheap labor crutch and employers will clean up their act with those jobs as well.


8 posted on 05/16/2025 7:21:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DFG

I trust the marketplace will adjust..................


9 posted on 05/16/2025 7:22:45 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: DFG

What’s the problem. DemonRATS don’t know how to cook?


10 posted on 05/16/2025 7:23:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (American Lives Matter! )
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To: DFG

I spent many an evening during high school working as a dishwasher and then a cook in several restaurants. Its good to hear from an amnestied illegal alien in my country that its something nobody wants to do.


11 posted on 05/16/2025 7:24:23 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Cooking is beneath Dems. Only the finest gourmet food will do. Oh well. Off to Whole Foods they go!


12 posted on 05/16/2025 7:24:36 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: DFG

Poor babies. Learn to cook while you’re learning to code. Or just open up a can of beanie wienees, pussies.


13 posted on 05/16/2025 7:26:31 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: DFG

Democrats haven’t been this angry since Republicans freed their slaves the first time.


14 posted on 05/16/2025 7:27:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: DFG

They want cheap labor that hurts American workers is what they really mean. They want to pay illegal aliens under the table while the taxpayer pays for their housing, education, food and medical care. Great deal for them. Pretty good deal for the illegal Alien (at least way better than what they had in their own country). Terrible deal for Americans.

No thanks.


15 posted on 05/16/2025 7:33:44 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DFG

So, he believes that LEGAL people, citizens and Green Card holders, avoid working in the Food service industry?


16 posted on 05/16/2025 7:34:11 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: DFG

😴😴😴😴🙏


17 posted on 05/16/2025 7:41:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DFG

Good!


18 posted on 05/16/2025 7:41:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG
Elites creating a permanent serf class of POC so they can save money on fancy brunches. Sounds like white supremacy.
19 posted on 05/16/2025 7:42:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: DFG

Well the positive news is with less bureaucrats allegedly working there, no need for as many restaurants.


20 posted on 05/16/2025 7:42:28 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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