His American Dream died. His town got over it.

[Initech]

The goofy red sign off State Road 23 still says “Eddie’s Steak Shed,” just as it always has. The thank-you plaques for sponsoring the county Little League are still in the front entrance, alongside 15 years’ worth of stickers honoring the steaks as the area’s best.

But farther inside, most everything has changed in the year since the old owner was detained, then deported, as part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by a tough-talking new president.

Roberto Beristain, a former dishwasher who worked until he could afford to buy the place, was gone. In his place were refurbished wood-paneled walls, a bar with a granite counter and a new pork chop entree. Even the name had been changed with something snappier, sleeker — Eddie’s was now simply, “The Shed.”

“I love what you did to the place!” Heather Pepper, 47, exclaimed to the bartender on a recent night. “It looks so updated, and it still feels local.”

As soon as he was detained, Beristain became a cause. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and immigration activists held him up as an example of what they said were exceedingly cruel new actions by President Trump. They said his aggressive efforts would ensnare good people, rip apart families and lead vengeful communities to exact their furor at the ballot box — the same points Democrats have used to argue against deporting hundreds of thousands of “dreamers” and other endangered immigrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/03/11/feature/a-beloved-restaurant-owner-was-deported-a-community-was-in-uproar-then-it-moved-on/?utm_term=.04a04049a4cc

Fuck this administration. Fuck Trump, fuck his racist POS supporters, fuck Fox News, fuck Putin, fuck 'em all.

[ProudLib72]

1. Time to deport the marmalade amoeba and take over tRump tower

We'll turn it into a homeless shelter.

[demigoddess]

2. good idea, better use for the building.

[Initech]

4. I like this idea!

[Kirk Lover]

3. They still remember there in Granger. I was just there and I was speaking about this

to my family. But nothing sits idle for long in Granger. They are an example of the suburban sprawl if I ever saw one. New shiny things constantly going up. But it's tRUMPland and it's going to take a lot more than Eddies story to move these people.

[n2doc]

7. When the next Recession comes, they will regret Trump

Last guy in the article brushes everything off because the 'economy is doing great' and 'my taxes are down'. We are running a trillion-dollar a year deficit because of those cuts. And that is unsustainable for long.

When the shit hits these folks in the pocketbook, they will change their minds.

[Kirk Lover]

8. We had to cut the convo short because my RUMPer sister got up all in a huff so we

dropped it. But the Parkland shooting happened while we were out there and when RUMP said to arm the teachers my sister said "he's an asshole". So that was good ! I've been telling folks...he will alienate his voters one at a time.

[UpInArms]

5. I wonder about his wife ...

Wife of Granger restaurant owner facing deportation says she regrets voting for Trump

Their story has drawn national attention — and threats and calls to Eddie’s Steak Shed — particularly since Helen has said she voted for President Donald Trump. Now, she says she regrets that vote.

“I wish I didn’t vote at all,” Helen Berestain said Friday. “I did it for the economy. We needed a change.”

She recalls that Roberto had complained, “He’s going to get rid of the Mexicans.”

But she countered with Trump’s words, that he would deport only the “bad hombres.”

The Beristains, she said, were all for deporting illegal immigrants who were criminals, bringing drugs or abusing the system, “but not to get rid of all the people. This is not what America is, the land of the free.”

“It’s regular people,” she said of who’s being deported. “It doesn’t mean they are bad. They need to draw a line.”

She also revealed that she, like her husband, had once been an illegal immigrant, though now she is a U.S. citizen. She is originally from Greece.

[Skittles]

6. "I did it for the economy"

did she forget what repukes do to an economy?

[LisaL]

10. How is her economy now?

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. So fucking stupid. I have no sympathy.

[onethatcares]

11. fucking ferns and granite counter tops.

the non descript image of america. hardys looks like mcds, burgerking looks like checkers, chilis is the same as applebees.

I hate what they've done to this place. It looks........like the place over there.