January 25, 2017, - 7:03 am
Where NOT To Eat: Is Your Fave Restaurant a “Sanctuary Restaurant”?
Today, President Trump is expected to sign several executive orders tightening immigration (which I’ll address in a separate post). In response, restaurants across the country have responded by declaring themselves “sanctuary restaurants,” which will continue to knowingly employ, shield, and otherwise illegally harbor illegal aliens in violation of federal immigration law.
Announced Friday, several restaurants across the country said they will band together to use their restaurants and the legal system to violate the Immigration and National Act and other federal immigration laws.
Several nonprofits launched an initiative called “Sanctuary Restaurants,” formed to protect restaurant workers of all creeds, sexual orientation and immigration status from any policies from the incoming Trump administration which may threaten their wellbeing.
A collaborative project between Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and social justice and Latinx organization Presente.org, Sanctuary Restaurants is a website that provides resources for restaurant workers, employers and consumers.
More than 50 restaurant owners have enlisted to be members, spokespeople for Restaurant Sanctuary said in an email. This means they “do not allow harassment of any individual based on nationality, refugee status, race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation,” the site notes. Restaurants owners and staff can swap strategies for protecting workers from harassment, and they can display a placard that shows they’re aligned with the initiative.
On the Restaurant Sanctuary website, workers can find information about what to do if an employer asks about immigration status or if they experience an immigration raid at home. There’s also a hotline for workers or restaurants to get support if they encounter “hate, harassment or discrimination.” Restaurant workers can print out a “My Rights Card” and physically present it to anyone who questions their rights. As of now, the resources on Sanctuary Restaurant are only available in English.
Awww, it’s only in English. Imagine that. How “uninclusive” of them!
So, is your favorite restaurant among these lawbreaking food purveyors? While the Restaurant Sanctuary folks claim they have at least 50 restaurants nationwide participating, fewer than that number are listed on the website. Check here to see if the restaurant you frequent is one of them.
In Southeastern Michigan (where I live), COLORS, the Russell Street Deli, and all of the Zingerman’s restaurants are part of this movement. Note that Zingerman’s is the overpriced deli where Barack Obama ate a gazillion-dollar sandwich and pimped his plan to raise the minimum wage to the point where every restaurant will be unaffordable to the average American. No surprise that Zingerman’s is a declared lawbreaker and harborer of illegals. (The Zingerman’s establishments can afford to take this stance because they are located in whacked out Ann Arbor, which my late father used to call “Moscow on the Huron,” when I was a student there at the University of Michigan. He later said that he should apologize to Moscow for the insult, since even Moscow threw off its Communist bonds and became more democratic, sane, and truly liberal, but Ann Arbor just grew more insane.)
I’d like to see Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)–now busy wasting money on expensive gyms and gym memberships–raiding these restaurants and showing them that Trump means business. Signing orders is one thing. Showing declared lawbreakers they won’t get away with enabling the invasion of our borders is another.
If your favorite restaurant is not on the list, make sure you ask that it not join this silly movement of restaurants endangering our national security. (And make sure to tell the restaurant owners that you will no longer patronize the place if they support anything like this.) As I’ve noted on this site, a Muslim-owned pizza shop in Maryland was harboring and employing Muslim illegal aliens and had ties to terrorism.
Can you imagine an American restaurant declaring during World War II that it would harbor Nazis?
Tags: ICE, ICE gym, ICE gym memberships, Immigration, Sanctuary Restaurants
Thank you for the list, Debbie. I can’t afford to eat out, and don’t like to even if I did have the money. And if I ever do have the money, even if it’s about a slice of pizza, I’ll pass the place right by if I find out they’re on this list.
Alfredo from Puerto Rico on January 25, 2017 at 8:31 am