They’d rather fight than comply.
Employees of a famed New York City bakery, who have less than two weeks to provide proof that they’re working in the country legally, said they will instead defy the law.
Clip via Fox News Channel
The 31 mostly Spanish-speaking workers of the Tom Cat Bakery instead demonstrated outside Manhattan’s Trump Tower and said they would rather face deportation than provide immigration papers, as required by an April 21 deadline.
Many of the workers have been employed by Tom Cat for many of its 30-year existence.
The bakery’s production line runs 24 hours a day and takes up an entire Queens city block. Employees said it was mainly anger that prompted their defiance of the law.
“It made me feel so sad, angry at the same time, because I never expected this was going to happen,” Hector Solis, 45, said, according to Fox News.
Solis, a Mexican native who suffered a heart attack a few years back, is fearful of losing both his job and the health insurance that goes along with it
Although he produced documents years ago purporting to show he’s here legally, he admitted that he’s not. “No, not really,” he said. He and the others claim that their protest is in defiance of President Donald Trump.
Folks on social media weren’t necessarily sympathetic to their plight.
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Famed NYC bakery’s immigrant workers defy Trump https://t.co/lVHlSsQstC pic.twitter.com/R0NxzKpS8v
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 9, 2017
It’s not called bullying; it’s called enforcing the FREAKING LAWS! Famed NYC bakery’s immigrant workers defy #Trump https://t.co/fMFuiVec1x
— Deplorable Robyn (@rossr122) April 9, 2017
I was born in Kansas and still have to provide my SS# & prove I’m legal to work. Just fire them. | https://t.co/dGADLwU4cu
— Penny Taylor (@GhostWritingUSA) April 9, 2017
@FoxNews Good makes it easy to find arrest and deport
— libs worst nightmare (@army1man1) April 9, 2017
@FoxNews If they’ve been in this country 30 years, then they’ve had plenty of time to legally become a citizen! It takes some nerve to feel above law
— Jeanine Jacks (@JacksJeanine) April 9, 2017
@FoxNews What do immigrants have to fear? Oh, did you accidentally leave out the word “illegal”?
— Randy Adams (@randalladams) April 9, 2017
@FoxNews How are they “defying Trump?” The law is the law and someone is finally enforcing it. Refreshing.
— DespiseTheLeft (@DouglasSBerlin2) April 9, 2017
@FoxNews Immigrants who wait patiently and enter legally can fill their vacancy. Deport them.
— David Butler (@slimthig69) April 9, 2017
The April 21 deadline was set by the Department of Homeland Security.
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