Pretentious Eateries Participate in 'Day Without Immigrants' Protest In the DC Metro area, the restaurant BusBoys and Poets will close, despite the fact that a Trump supporter recently tipped one of its African American waitress hundreds of dollars, as will all of restaurateur
Jose Andres’ establishments. Andres has long battled with Trump.
Andres told NPR "it was a very easy decision" to close his restaurants. Of course, because President Trump was forced to sue Andres after the celebrity chef broke with contract and pulled plans to establish a restaurant in Trump's D.C. hotel.
Celebrity chef
Rick Bayless is also on the roster and said he will close four of his Chicago restaurants. Other famed eateries like Blue Ribbon Sushi in New York will also close.
NPR reports that "thousands of immigrants are skipping work; not shopping; not eating at restaurants, buying gas, or sending their children to school."
"LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis says immigrants, regardless of legal status, contribute 40 percent of LA County's gross domestic product: almost $300 billion a year. It's incumbent on us to be brave, which we're prepared to do," Solis said.
"To step up; to say to him, not in my house; not in my county; not in my state.'"
As usual, the Left is conflating immigrants who came to this country with a desire to be Americans, with illegal immigrants, because it makes for a decent hashtag on Twitter.
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