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babylonsister

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Mon Mar 8, 2021, 09:53 PM Mar 2021

Racist customers threatened to call ICE on Mexican restaurant's workers for requiring masks

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. That’s when the restaurant faced an onslaught of racist harassment.

“It was just horrific,” co-owner Monica Richards told The Post. “People don’t understand unless you’re in our business what it felt like, how hard it was to go through everything we went through during covid. For people to be negative toward us for trying to remain safe, so that this doesn’t continue to happen, just makes zero sense to us.” This hasn’t been isolated incident either, with a second Mexican restaurant in Houston also reporting similar harassment.


Cantina Barba co-owner Steven O’Sullivan said that “screaming” customers were harassing employees even before Abbott lifted restrictions. “This has been ongoing through covid,” he told The Post. “We’ve had threats of calling ICE. I had one guy just stand there and berate one of my bartenders and tell her ‘you’re an absolute idiot, you don’t know what you’re doing. If you think these masks are going to save your life, you’re 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 aren’t getting met. Sometimes it’s because they perceive their targets as having no right to be here.

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Racist customers threatened to call ICE on Mexican restaurant's workers for requiring masks (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2021 OP
ugh... film the racists and post it. Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #1
Time to make the special salsa! texasfiddler Mar 2021 #2
I thought they wanted businesses to have the freedom to make their own rules without interference tanyev Mar 2021 #3

tanyev

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3. I thought they wanted businesses to have the freedom to make their own rules without interference
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 10:15 PM
Mar 2021

from the government. Oh, does that only apply to rules that they agree with? Why yes, yes it does.

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