Will Mexican restaurant workers join Staten Island business boycott? (Nationwide?)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rumblings in the restaurant community over the weekend focused on a boycott potentially taking place on Thursday, Feb. 16, on behalf of the Mexican community. The effort purportedly will affect other industries as well.

"Many Mexican [owned] stores are going to close and [Mexicans] are not going to work," said a healthcare worker who declined to give her name but lives in Tompkinsville and hails from Mexico. She will be showing up to her job that day but says her friends certainly are buzzing about it.

"They are asked not to work, not to buy in the stores or internet, not to buy gas, not to send kids to school, not going to restaurants and not going to open their business and it's not only in Staten Island," she said, indicating the discussion was for workers and businesses around the country....

Quite a few of them actually. I know in construction many illegals employ and exploit other illegals. Over the last decade or two I have watched one legit business after another close their doors because they couldn’t compete with someone who paid their people under the table, or paid less than minimum wage. Some of those companies were several generations old, but they just couldn’t fight it any more.

For greedy restaurants, construction businesses, landscaping and house cleaning businesses, yes. #### em. They’ve gotten away with murder forever hiring illegals. If they try to charge me more, there’s ALWAYS cheaper competition. I suspect this is the reason Trump only won 57 percent on Staten Island Oh and port richmond, which is a pos area anyway, and a few mexican restaurants will get hurt. #### em.

Hell yeah. Tell it like it is. Never been there and never plan on going there but if every Mescan food hash house shuts down in the US it will not hurt my feelings one bit. I hate spending any money at these frickin beaner delicatessens.

Beaner food is not that hard to cook.

Shake out some tortillas, re-fry some beans and wrap the tortilla around it.

And for good cooked quality mescan food, I just stay at home and my lovely WHITE wife of 34 years can cook some of the finest enchiladas and carne casada north of the border. Makes her own flour/corn tortillas to go with it.

Who needs a greasy spoon mescan food joint with a bunch of infected wetback illegal aliens slinging hash and diseases to go with it.

better yet....
pack up and leave the country....
let them do this
and the will see NO ONE NEEDS ILLEGALS

these people shoudl be back in mexico demanding JOBS there....
where does all that oil money go....
hey Carlos .... got and answer
give it 2 years and there will be a revolt in mexico

The article was primarily about NYC; however, this may be a call for a nation wide strike. For the most part, with a few exceptions, this strike call won’t mean a hill of beans, to the vast majority of the American populace.

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