May 2 Immigration Raids of SF Bay Restaurants

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday raided 11 El Balazo restaurants, which serve Mexican and Central American food, around the Bay Area, arresting 63 undocumented immigrants – and drawing the outrage of immigration advocates who had marched the previous day to call for the legalization of undocumented workers. The raids began at 10:30 Friday morning in San Francisco, San Ramon, Lafayette, Concord, Pleasanton and Danville and involved 62 people from Mexico and one from Guatemala.

Perhaps I have too much time on my hands but I always find the comments after the news reports on immigration stories highly revealing.  The story linked above is no different — lots of angry people.  Here are a couple of interesting comments:

Winner of the Most Observant Award:  “So are they also going to round up all the undocumented Irish bartenders and Italian waitstaff in San Francisco?”

Winner of Mexican Hater of the Day Award:  “Great! Keep it up ICE! Everywhere I go, all I see are Mexicans. I feel like I’m living in Mexico.Their argument is that their families are being broken up. Huh? They come here illegally or not and then their illegal family members come here to join them. Then they have the audacity to claim that they’re being broken up. Take your baggypants, gangbanger, bully kids with you back to drug cartel land. ”  (emphasis added).

KJ