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Jim Geraghty


NextImg:The Corner: California Congresswoman Shows Support for Restaurant Employing Illegal Immigrants

If you live in fear of a raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, know that 36-year-old Democratic congresswoman Sara Jacobs of San Diego is standing with you — by dining at a nice restaurant.

“These immigration raids don’t define us, but our response to them does,” Jacobs posted on X. “I was proud to have dinner at Buona Forchetta to show my support to them as they deal with the fallout of the raid where agents threw out flash bangs in order to arrest restaurant workers — not hardened criminals. We will continue to stand with our immigrant communities.”

The restaurant was indeed recently raided by ICE.

According to a warrant filed by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Michael Hensley and unsealed at San Diego federal court Monday, a five-year-old tip alleged that South Park restaurants Buona Forchetta and Enoteca Buona Forchetta employed more than 10 undocumented workers. The tip was then updated in January, alleging 19 of the company’s 40 employees were undocumented or had forged visas and owner Matteo Cattaneo had exploited those workers into 12+ hour shifts with no breaks.

Friday’s raid involved at least 20 masked agents in military-style gear taking a group of workers into custody, while also confronting and handcuffing others and at one point detonating flash-bang grenades in the vicinity.

Still, Jacobs is attempting to make clear that she supports the restaurant for . . . employing illegal immigrants and allegedly exploiting them, not allowing them breaks, and according to the original tip, “treating the employees poorly by mentally and verbally abusing them.”

As much as I’d like to mock Jacobs for dining in a fancy restaurant, the prices at Buona Forchetta are pretty reasonable by California standards.