"I know a little place where the ingredients are always fresh. You can get a mega-burrito and a Dos Equis to wash it down for not much more than 10 bucks. If you're in a bad mood when you arrive, you won't be for long, because the workers smile, they laugh, they seem like they're having so much fun making your food just the way you like it that you can't help but start to feel like you're having a little fun yourself."
"When I'm in there with my parents, the staff are careful to treat them (and any other older people) with respect. Someone always comes around from behind the counter to carry my mom's food to her table for her. Last week my favorite burrito shop was dark. The door was locked. A note posted outside indicated that they would be closed for the foreseeable future for kitchen renovations."
"No mention had been made of upcoming renovations at any of my prior visits though. With ICE known to be skulking about, it didn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what had really happened. Immigration agents reportedly kidnapped several of the employees and are in the process of deporting them. I confirmed this as best I could, which basically meant asking people in the area what they had heard,"
A neighborhood burrito shop offers fresh ingredients, a mega-burrito and a Dos Equis for about ten dollars. The staff are cheerful, laugh while preparing food, and treat older patrons with special respect, even carrying meals to tables. The shop unexpectedly closed with a notice citing long-term kitchen renovations. Neighbors suspected immigration enforcement rather than renovations. Immigration agents reportedly seized several employees and began deportation proceedings, and local confirmation came from neighborhood accounts because the Department of Homeland Security generally does not disclose detainee information to the public. The action is characterized as kidnapping and contrasted with lawful police arrests.
Read at Above the Law
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