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Washington Post Whines: ‘Not Many Restaurants
Left in D.C.’ if ICE Enforces U.S. Laws

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Posted By: mc squared, 5/16/2025 1:21:49 PM

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is commiserating with wealthy restaurant owners who are trying to shield their lower-wage, illegal migrant workers from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal migration. “Owners or operators of four restaurants confirmed to the Washington Post that they had lost employees, whether permanently or temporarily, since DHS agents visited last week,” the newspaper reported. “If they want to go by the [law] book, there is not many restaurants left in D.C.,” said Luis Reyes, a former illegal migrant from El Salvador who is now the co-owner of a restaurant visited by ICE. He added:

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Isn't 'Who will wash our dishes' more than a little racist? Maybe they should put up signs:
"Good Food, Good Drinks, Illegal Employees paid under our tables".

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Californian 5/16/2025 1:27:29 PM (No. 1950837)
Oh no! They'll have to hire Americans and pay a decent wage! The residential DC areas are among the wealthiest in the nation, on the same scale as the techies in Silicon Valley. I have no sympathy for all those people who got rich by stealing my tax dollars paying more for their dining out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 5/16/2025 1:33:17 PM (No. 1950839)
"Luis Reyes, a former illegal migrant from El Salvador who is now the co-owner of a restaurant visited by ICE" The Deep State Deep Swamp In D.C.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 5/16/2025 1:36:54 PM (No. 1950841)
Gee, the transition from a criminal based economy to a LEGAL economy is a shocker for those who love the idea of supporting criminals. Learn to live in the REAL world, fools.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DougTN 5/16/2025 1:37:27 PM (No. 1950842)
Sounds like the Democrat’s argument defending slavery circa 1860. Absolutely no self awareness at the Post.
22 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 5/16/2025 1:38:12 PM (No. 1950843)
The elites are whining that their exploited illegal workers are being returned to their homes. They don't give a f*** about the workers, its their bottom line that being affected. AWWWWWWWW, poor babies.
25 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: Northcross 5/16/2025 1:52:53 PM (No. 1950859)
No big deal. This opens up jobs for newly fired federal workers and displaced diversity managers.
34 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: PostAway 5/16/2025 2:05:11 PM (No. 1950861)
So, the mandarins of The Swamp believe that a winning strategy is to plea that without illegal immigration and its attendant displacement of citizens, human trafficking, drug trafficking and the importation of terrorism they won’t be able to access their lobster and foie gras at a reasonable price? Or their tacos and empanadas either? Is there be any greater evidence that a group of so-called leaders is decadent to the point of collapse? They don’t even realize that the world has now turned upside down and they look like the third rate imbeciles that they are.
18 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: thomthomp 5/16/2025 2:20:58 PM (No. 1950864)
Good grief, how out of touch can these people be? It's like the Mafia whining "We can't do our business if you insist on enforcing the law".
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Krause 5/16/2025 2:27:53 PM (No. 1950868)
What Wapo is saying is ‘We need more illegal immigration.’
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 5/16/2025 2:32:38 PM (No. 1950870)
AFAIK, there is NO legitimate, legal path from illegal alien to legal resident. How is this guy not STILL an illegal?
16 people like this.

Reply 11 - Posted by: Safari Man 5/16/2025 2:50:49 PM (No. 1950877)
Imagine how many able-bodied XXX-Americans DC has living on the dole (where XXX is your protected grievance group). Here's their chance to prove their worth.
9 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: Ditto1958 5/16/2025 3:06:41 PM (No. 1950881)
Or restaurants could hire American citizens…
6 people like this.

Reply 13 - Posted by: ARKfamily 5/16/2025 3:14:17 PM (No. 1950884)
So I guess the Washington Post agreed with George W Bush and Dick Cheney about Americans not doing those kind of jobs. . .
5 people like this.

Reply 14 - Posted by: Venturer 5/16/2025 3:33:46 PM (No. 1950892)
They are crying, but the fact is the owners should have been arrested also for hiring illegals. They got off easy.
13 people like this.

Reply 15 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 5/16/2025 3:41:47 PM (No. 1950895)
Some of those Georgetown grads with degrees in French literature can learn to hustle
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Vaquero45 5/16/2025 4:48:08 PM (No. 1950918)
Ooohhh…. The schadenfreude is thick here!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/16/2025 4:54:07 PM (No. 1950919)
Dr Fauci put a huge number of restaurants out of business 4 years ago, and the rest of them have not recovered. Raising the minimum wages have put the rest of the restaurants in loss positions.
7 people like this.

Reply 18 - Posted by: tootall 5/16/2025 5:05:33 PM (No. 1950923)
I do not support slavery. Or the caste system. It appears the left does. It's disgusting.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: billa57 5/16/2025 6:53:27 PM (No. 1950969)
A downright admission of illegals working in the restaurant business. Thanks for the tip.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: mifla 5/17/2025 6:38:26 AM (No. 1951158)
Cut back on giving welfare to able bodied people and they will be fighting over these jobs.
2 people like this.

Reply 21 - Posted by: paral04 5/17/2025 5:23:52 PM (No. 1951497)
Isn't that the same excuse that slaveholders used before the Civil War?
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