“Sanctuary Restaurants” Are Offering Immigrants a Discrimination-Free Space — Food News

February 1, 2017

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Independent restaurateurs are rallying together to create a safe space for immigrant workers amidst President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.

Trump signed an executive order last week that would pull federal funding from sanctuary cities in America that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities to deport non-violent undocumented immigrants. More recently, in another executive order, he temporarily banned immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

Aside from directly impacting the lives of immigrants and their loved ones, the order also affects the restaurant industry: 1.8 million restaurant workers are foreign-born, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; immigrants make up 70 percent of the restaurant labor force in larger cities; and the Pew Hispanic Center found that 1.1 million employees in “eating and drinking places” were unauthorized immigrant workers in 2014.

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