What happened when these restaurants lost their immigrant workers for real

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sergio Roblero didn't need to imagine a “day without immigrants.” On Oct. 18 of last year, the 19-year-old line cook lived it.

At the time, Roblero -- who is from Chiapas, Mexico — was cooking at a popular Mexican restaurant called Agave in downtown Buffalo.
He had overstayed a work visa by several months, he said, but he felt confident that, if he kept his head down, nothing would come of it. But early on the morning of Oct. 18, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided not only Agave, but three sister establishments.

All told, 25 people, including Roblero, were arrested. And of the restaurants targeted in the raid, only one has since reopened.

“Immigrants are part of the U.S. economy,” Roblero said, in Spanish, via Facebook Messenger. “Now I’m under house arrest. I haven’t left to see any of my coworkers, the restaurant is closed and I can’t work.”

Thus far, few restaurants have suffered the scale of the raids that Agave did. But in cities across America, restaurants, bars and hotels are bracing themselves for the possibility of further enforcement action under the Trump administration. On Thursday, restaurants in several major cities — including José Andrés’s Jaleo, Oyamel and Zaytinya in D.C. -- shut down or cut service to demonstrate how much their businesses would suffer without immigrants.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/17/restaurants-imagined-a-day-without-immigrants-in-one-city-last-year-it-actually-happened/?tid=pm_business_pop&utm_term=.84de45bdb34e

[tblue37]

1. And one idiot owner fired all of his workers for taking the day off to support

the Day without Immigrants demonstration.

BTW, I wonder why two movies--A Day without Mexicans and Idiocracy--are not being re-released. That would be both good business and an effective political act.

[jmowreader]

4. You didn't notice who released Idiocracy in the first place

I SERIOUSLY doubt 20th Century Fox - who owns the House Organ of the Republican Party - is going to re-release Idiocracy. Especially since they barely released it in the first place.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Better stock up on canned and frozen fruits and vegetables n/t

[rzemanfl]

3. Just thinking the same thing. Canned in case the power goes out. n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Imagine what it will do to restaurants n/t

[rzemanfl]

7. Hotels and resorts too. Between that and being a tin pot dictatorship no one wants to

visit, Florida is in for a rough time.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. And all it takes is one bad season

for many of them to go out of business. Maybe some Trump hotels will fail! That's one bright spot!

[rzemanfl]

10. The people with ready cash will gobble them up and build gated condos. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

5. Article is missing some key information. How much were these workers being paid?

Were they being paid "on the books"?

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. I worked for a commercial landscape business that employed illegals

Everyone had a Social Security card and a work permit, but getting fake papers is pretty easy. All we had to do was have copies of their driver's license, SS card and work permit with their I9 in their file. There is no law that requires a business to check for the validity of those documents, even though you can. But I was told expressly to NOT check.