Sergio Garcia: Famous chef, friend to the president, and apparently … illegal immigrant in open violation of the law for decades?
Sergio Garcia (not the golfer) lived illegally in the United States for 36 years. He was deported once, but returned again.
In 2002, he was ordered deported again, but he never left. He just laid low, hired immigration lawyers, and hoped things would work out.
The Econ Prof from Georgetown wants us to all feel sorry for this guy?
Here's some of Garcia's story, according to the Texas Tribune:
Early Tuesday, March 25, Sergio Garcia heated the pinto beans, rice, the fragrant carnitas and barbacoa at his Austin Avenue restaurant kitchen for the last time.
He headed out the alley door, where Sergio's Food Truck was waiting to be loaded for the morning downtown crowd.
Then, as he recalls, a man in plain clothes approached him at the truck; another man with a vest reading 'Police' lingered some distance away. ‘They asked me if I'm Sergio, and I said, "Yeah, I'm Sergio,"' Garcia told The Bridge in a phone call from Monterrey, Mexico, last week.
'Then they said, "You gotta come with us."'
Garcia was then detained by ICE.
He complied, assuming there was some kind of mix-up. He had no criminal record, only a two-decade-old deportation order for illegal re-entry that immigration agents had never attempted to enforce.
He never, ever expected that after 23 years that the United States would suddenly enforce that law?
So he was deported. Again.
He was a well-known business owner who had won an international following in the years when President George W. Bush brought hordes of journalists and politicians to Waco ...
Garcia, originally from Veracruz, Mexico, rose from selling ceviche in Styrofoam cups to earning writeups in Texas Monthly and catering events related to President Bush's Western White House in the 2000s.
A box of thank-you notes at the family's Waco home includes signed letters by a Baylor University athletic director, Waco Independent School District and countless customers through the years.
It's wild that Garcia accomplished all of this while he and his wife, who was also an illegal alien (she's since self-deported to be with her husband), were illegally in the country.
Garcia claims he tried to obtain legal status.
Garcia said he and his wife have spent more than 25 years trying to obtain legal status, hiring immigration attorneys in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Florida most recently.
'It was so bad. We spent so much money hiring different lawyers and different lawyers,' Garcia said.
Professor Tabarrok says this is the "decline" of the Republican Party.
Or is it that they're finally doing what they promised to do for 40 years?
(But have we considered how good his burritos were?)
Longtime Waco immigration attorney Susan Nelson said ... 'In other words, they're [immigration enforcement] no longer considering whether someone is contributing to the community, making great burritos ... '
I cannot believe that we are no longer enforcing national sovereignty using the burrito test! 😂
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