Posted on 11/04/2025 7:32:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
At La Imperial Bakery in Hillsboro, October typically brings a rush of customers eager to celebrate Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. They buy bags of pan de muerto, conchas and other pastries galore.
Not this year.
Over the past few weeks, as the federal government has ramped up immigration enforcement and agents have seized people from cars, streets, apartment buildings and parking lots across the Portland metro area, sales at the family-owned bakery have plummeted by at least 40 percent, said owner and lead pastry chef Moises Pineda.
“The clients are not coming,” Pineda said. “We are really worried.”
The bakery, which sells breads, specialty cakes, desserts and drinks, has been a community fixture for 15 years. At the end of July, its owners opened a second location in Beaverton. But fear is now keeping customers away, Pineda said.
The story is similar at other Latino businesses across the Portland area, and it’s a worrisome trend for neighborhoods with a large concentration of Latino businesses.
Business owners and managers report stark declines in sales since mid-September – some as much as half. It’s worse than during the pandemic, many say, with empty store aisles, deserted restaurant floors and workers resigning or regularly calling in sick out of fear.
“The psychological pressure is enormous, for both employees and customers,” said Marco Perez, assistant manager at Supermercados Mexico, a supermarket in outer Southeast Portland. “We all wonder when it’s going to be our turn to be taken.”
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Kinda like TonySoprano losing a bunch of hoods. Uhh, aww, that makes me feel so saaaaad!
Not!
Well, if the govt. had done what is right and lawful this problem would not exist because the population that these businesses cater to would be legal as opposed to being not legal. In addition, they would be gainfully employed rather than living off the taxes that others who work have to pay.
Corrected statement:
“The clients ILLEGALS are not coming,” Pineda said.
Unspoken afterthought:
"I should have catered to the gringos, too."
/s
Go back to your homeland and carry on as if Trump never existed.
Illegal Latino businesses
So businesses staffed by illegals and whose customer base is illegal is having trouble? Because I know plenty of Hispanics and Hispanic-owned businesses that welcome the removal of illegals and who have zero concerns, so it’s not that.
Are they also upset drug dealers are short of product because the suppliers are getting blown up?
It is not the job of the USA to provide criminal customers for this man to stay in business.
“We all wonder when it’s going to be our turn to be taken.”
Be proactive! Take the $1000 and free flight home!
“We are not here to hurt anyone.”
And yet you are.
I had a hard time reading the article. The tears kept blinding my eyes.
Bingo! Nailed it.
That was my first reaction, too. These businesses hire illegals and they sell to illegals. None of that would exist if we had a federal government that did its job.
Good
So, this business isn’t doing the greatest because...they only cater to illegals? Is this business even legit to start with?
60% of illegal alien households get SNAP, welfare, Section 8 housing, whatever.
They’re leaches.
Why would Latino businesses be disproportionately affected by enforcing the laws against illegal immigration?
I feel your pain. I tear up when I laugh hard, too.
Me?
I keep a box of Kleenex handy for such tear-jerking stories. I bet piñata sales are falling through the roof.
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