“A couple employees left for the rest of the day. They were pretty rattled.” Those were the words of multi-restaurant owner and Georgetown Events Hospitality Group president Bo Blair, in a Washington Post report by Tim Carman, Warren Rojas, and Maria Luisa Paul. Blair was referencing the arrival of ICE agents at various restaurants in town, and “demand letters” served by the agents who were asking for documented proof that employees were eligible to work in the United States.
It was difficult to read the report without feeling similarly rattled. As a member of the right, it’s difficult to countenance an ideology long associated with liberty cheering what insults it.
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