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Norbert

(7,852 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:06 PM Sep 2025

So if I dine at a Mexican Restaurant could I be detained

One of the local Mexican Diners that I frequent has an illustration if a Mexican flag prominently displayed on their sign.

There is no limit to the stupidity and danger the we are headed in my opinionand we are on the precipice of making ICE much larger.

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LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
7. Good chiles rellenos are hard to find! They made the best at the hospital where I worked.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:26 PM
Sep 2025

Haven't been able to find good ones since. They're always too mushy and often expensive.

ms liberty

(11,364 posts)
10. There used to be a place. The Mexican Burro, on Gandy Blvd in Tampa Fla
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:59 PM
Sep 2025

It's not there anymore; it looked kind of hole in the wall-ish, a concrete block bldg, whitewashed with a donkey drawing on the side. Their food was authentic of course, and amazing. Their Chile Rellenos were out of this world. I've never found anywhere else that good.

unc70

(6,514 posts)
12. Had chiles rellenos for lunch
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 04:48 PM
Sep 2025

Pretty good, but not great. The place that had great ones closed a couple of years ago. A nearby "non-Mexican" restaurant occasionally has really, really good ones; their staff is from all over Central and South America.

SWBTATTReg

(26,399 posts)
2. You make good points. Me and my other half will go to a Mexican restaurant soon, one that's nearby, and always
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:12 PM
Sep 2025

good food, and great service. Always want to support the numerous immigrant communities in STLMO.

Jim__

(15,276 posts)
4. You could be detained. Period.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:20 PM
Sep 2025

Unfortunately any of us can be arrested and detained with no due process. All they have to do is claim we are illegal. We have no right to due process.

LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
5. What? That's pretty much all we have around here.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 03:21 PM
Sep 2025

Jalisco Taqueria, this and that.

I'm serious.

They would be detaining about 200,000 people locally on any given day if they did that!

You can steal my pan dulce out of my cold, dead hands...LOL

Deep State Witch

(12,755 posts)
11. My Husband and I Have Talked About What To Do
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 04:35 PM
Sep 2025

If we're dining at one of the local Mexican or other Latin American restaurants in our area. Basically it resolves to "use our white privilege to get in the face of the ICE goons to protect the workers and other diners."

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