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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 03:45 PM Dec 2017

Let Me Tell Ya I own a Main Street Boutique L.A.

I hire my staff in at $14.00 an hr..Ever since Trump started with his illegal immigrant Bullshit.. Business has been very tough.. The Mexican Worker is a huge part of our economy... Trickle Up was our ticket around here.. But ever since that Orange Piece of Crap.. became president and started issuing all sorts of mandates and threats to our Mexican Immigrants...Business has fallen way off.. What I notice most is that Mexican's are not shopping in their bodegas as much...The owners of the bodegas are not shopping in their favorite stores and it goes up and up to the Car Dealerships.. the streets are quieter and business generally stinks.

Thanks Donnie...

Can't wait until "all those great new businesses come pouring in" With 10 an hr. jobs..

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Let Me Tell Ya I own a Main Street Boutique L.A. (Original Post) busterbrown Dec 2017 OP
Friends all tell me that ... LenaBaby61 Dec 2017 #1

LenaBaby61

(6,977 posts)
1. Friends all tell me that ...
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 04:37 PM
Dec 2017

Their relatives have ALL mostly gone BACK to Mexico, or are soon to be going back there. They were going back under Pres. Obama, but now under this pig-in-office, they're fleeing. Firsthand accounting for me: When I've gone to a dentist office, shopping--gone out around town here in Los Angeles on runs etc., I've seen many less push carts here, and an older gentleman I used to buy fruit from (He was so cute, flirting with me and he was 75 years old), has a niece still living here who told me that he'd gone back to Mexico to live with his son. She said he was afraid of deportation and of being beaten up by the police like several of his friends and their children had been beaten up (The brutality is another story). I've seen a dwindling of undocumented immigrants in my community the past several years but this past year, wow.

Yes, the Immigrant bashing and ICE arrests have sent the immigrant community in my area back to Mexico faster than Usain Bolt can run.

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