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We should be rounding the racists up.
Racist customers threatened to call ICE on Mexican restaurant's workers for requiring masks
Gabe Ortiz
Daily Kos Staff
Monday March 08, 2021 · 4:02 PM EST
One of the owners of a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Texas said that angry customers threatened to sic Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on staffers because the business continues to require masks inside, The Washington Post reports. While Gov. Greg Abbott recklessly lifted pandemic restrictions, Picos made a decision based on public health to continue its masking policy. Thats when the restaurant faced an onslaught of racist harassment.
Cantina Barba co-owner Steven OSullivan said that screaming customers were harassing employees even before Abbott lifted restrictions. This has been ongoing through covid, he told The Post. Weve had threats of calling ICE. I had one guy just stand there and berate one of my bartenders and tell her youre an absolute idiot, you dont know what youre doing. If you think these masks are going to save your life, youre stupid blah, blah, blah. Nobody wants to deal with that stuff.
Much like the racists who call the police on Black people, the only thing as dangerous as ICE are the racists deliberately using the agency as a weapon against their targets. Sometimes because they feel whatever their demands are arent getting met. Sometimes its because they perceive their targets as having no right to be here.
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