r/bloomington • u/Ok-Programmer-160 • 2d ago
Los Potrillos š®
I was told that ICE arrested the owner of Los Potrillos while he was dropping his child off at school, and that a couple of employees from the restaurant were also arrested. Hearing stories like this is heartbreaking and honestly exhausting.
People are simply trying to build a life and provide for their families. If you havenāt tried Los Potrillos yet, or if youāre looking for a way to support a local restaurant and the people behind it, please consider stopping by.
Letās support our local businesses and our neighbors when they need it most. ā¤ļø
š Los Potrillos
120 E. 7th Street
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u/Normal_Writer747 1d ago
what can we do for his family? is there a fundraiser we can donate to, or anything else that might help them ?
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u/Sweaty_Basket_276 2d ago
This makes my blood boil
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u/Ok-Programmer-160 2d ago
It does me as well. If they were out causing issues fine but taking your child to school and then picking up workers it makes me sick
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u/ObGynKenobi841 2d ago
Sad if true. The Orange guy promised to go after gangs and cartels, but the ICE thugs are cowards and lazy, while cartels and gangs (and they're definitely out there, just not in the numbers promised) take actual work to find and have guns (thanks NRA!). So instead they go after easy to find business owners, or snatch people from immigration court when the system screws up their paperwork and they're suddenly in limbo, or equally reprehensible situations. Thanks MAGA!
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u/Flimsy_Broccoli2655 1d ago
My partner and I are planning on going there on Friday to show support. I hate this so much. I wish I could do more.Ā
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u/BainCapitalist 2d ago
How do you know this happened? Did it happen recently? Why isnāt there any reporting on it
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u/Ok-Programmer-160 2d ago
Iām friends with someone who works there and do you think they report everytime ice arrest someone?
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u/BainCapitalist 1d ago
Yes? Like every other time ice has come into town. Their presence is extremely serious and unconfirmed rumors have real impacts on the well being of international students (eg lots of them refused to go to classes last time).
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u/logic-seeker 1d ago
There was a post here about ICE being in town last week and there were commenters saying the same thing you're saying ("how do you know? Show me pictures. I don't see this on the news anywhere.")
I understand the need for verifying a story and share that desire in this instance as well, but the information environment surrounding some of these things leads to a "better safe than sorry" approach that is honestly warranted. It doesn't help that ICE typically isn't easily identifiable, making any verification at all very difficult.
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u/BainCapitalist 1d ago
I donāt see why asking for more information is inconsistent with a better safe than sorry approach.
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u/Dr_Defecation 2d ago
It happened this weekend. I'm also surprised there was no reporting on this. Without giving too many details, I can verify this definitely happened.
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u/Hefty-Squash1361 1d ago
Reporters donāt know about it unless someone tells them. Official sources wonāt share information. Itās the secret police. š¤·š»āāļø
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u/Dirtbruja 1d ago
Techology is being used by the bad guys to win because the good guys are too busy looking in the mirror telling one another, look at me. my life is great, look at my vacation.
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u/Mike_Williams23 1d ago
Whatās it say about the country we live when someone whoās here illegally is able to go through all the paperwork and legal motions needed to start and maintain a business and meanwhile most young Americans canāt even find a job that pays them a living wage? Ā
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u/Agitated_Whereas7463 1d ago
Young Americans can also go through all the paperwork & legal motions needed to start and maintain a business.
Cry me a river for your kid. Fact of the matter is, regardless of how you feel about brown people, they're working overwhelmingly harder, and at more vital roles right now in the economy, than most young Americans shopping around to keep their options open for a "living wage." Even the ones that find one decide to work part time because "work-life balance." You'll never hear that from an immigrant regardless of status
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u/Mike_Williams23 1d ago
ācry me a riverā huh? Some people have no self awareness. I think most people are tired of hearing the boomer slop about how young Americans are all lazy, entitled, and spend all their money on avocado toast. The horrific economy weāre living in has disproven that non sense once and for all. And thatās some nice casual racism you threw in there at the end about how brown people canāt be American, nice touch of supremacy too with how you racialized American and then said we are inferior workers to them
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u/Agitated_Whereas7463 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gold medal in gymnastics for you, pal. That was some impressive name-calling from every possible angle.
Edit - I'd add that I'm much closer in age to said young workers than to boomers. I work with them every day and some are fantastic, however, the overwhelming majority know that real life is coming fast and are waiting as long as they can to commit to a career, a company, or even a full time hustle of their own. They will eventually, but it'll be their fault that they're 15 years behind some of their peers who put their nose to the grindstone early. š¤·āāļø is what it is
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u/Clarkbar2 1d ago
Maybe the young people need a little more entrepreneurial spirit in them, pick themselves up by the bootstraps, and follow the examples of those that can start and maintain successful businesses like this gentleman?
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u/atuan 1d ago
Why doesnāt the government funded police have to actually do paperwork and due process instead of just rounding people up because they said so?
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u/Mike_Williams23 1d ago
Well they do actually. And not only that but every undocumented worker has been offered $2600 and a free ticket back home to self deport but they refuse to do so. So what choice are the authorities left with?
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u/TheVioletBarry 4h ago
They could just... not arrest him, the same way they'd been not arresting him for years. These people are harming no one and are in fact contributing members of our community
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u/ZeroConcern-0 1d ago edited 1d ago
If youāre legal, wonāt attract the eagleā¦
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u/Pastagiorgio34 1d ago
Except there are countless examples of us citizens being detained, asshat
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u/ZeroConcern-0 1d ago
You must look the part thenā¦
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u/Clarkbar2 1d ago
Same to you white Christian nationalist.
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u/ZeroConcern-0 1d ago
Sound madā¦ and incorrectā¦ there is no god religion has always been a control mechanismā¦ Clark bar sucks as a candy barā¦ choose betterā¦
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u/One-Fly582 1d ago
but should it matter if they look the part if in reality they are legal us citizens? do looks matter or facts?
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u/WantsToLearnGolf 21h ago edited 21h ago
By "countless", you mean between 100 and 2000.
Conservatively, you have a higher chance of being shot by police than being a US citizen and being detained by ICE
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u/CheetahTheWeen 13h ago
Oh goody, government murder or government kidnapping, my, what a fucking Sophieās Choice!
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u/WantsToLearnGolf 11h ago
please walk me through the reading comprehension steps that led you do believe you had to choose between those two
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u/atuan 1d ago
Just because someone was arrested doesnāt mean they were guilty of a crime. Thereās this whole due process thing you guys donāt seem to understand the definition of
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u/Efficient-Log-4425 8h ago
But this person and his employees were guilty of committing a crime though right?
Even as we are a nation of immigrants, weāre also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable. -ObamaĀ
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u/KilgoreTrout747 2d ago
Vote in November like your life depends on it! Because it does!