Many Brooklyn restaurants are boycotting delivery services to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, NY after a delivery man was detained by military police and turned over to ICE last week. Pablo Villavicencio, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador, was asked for proof of citizenship, and when he could only produce his municipal ID, he was removed to a detention facility in New Jersey awaiting the deportation process. Villavicencio is married to a U.S. citizen and has two U.S.-born daughters. He applied for a green card in February but has not heard back. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state is providing pro-bono legal services to him.
According to the CNN report:
"Villavicencio's arrest has sent 'shock waves' throughout New York City's immigrant community, including among those who regularly use the kind of municipal identification card that Villavicencio displayed during the incident. 'They (undocumented immigrants) were told with this ID, they would have some form of liberty in this city without being arrested," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a Democrat, said. 'We are setting a dangerous precedent with what we saw here,' he added."This is what happens when a despicable bigot is elected to the Presidency, who then encourages additional bigots to engage in malicious behavior.
