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Leftists Bully Mexican Restaurant That Served Jeff Sessions, Force It Off Social Media

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Leftists, angry at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, bullied a Houston-area Mexican restaurant off social media and forced its owner to apologize after the mob learned the eatery had served Sessions dinner during his visit to the city last week.

The executive chef of El Tiempo, a popular Tex-Mex restaurant in the Houston area, took a photo with Sessions when the Attorney General happened into his restaurant during his trip to Houston. The restaurant’s social media manager, apparently unaware of the depth and breath of leftist rage online, innocently posted the photo to social media with a caption that said it was an “honor” to serve Sessions.

And that’s when the trouble began, according to local media in Houston.

“The social media backlash was instant, with some even calling for a boycott of the restaurant. Those speaking out against the photo say Sessions’ stance on immigration is the issue,” Click 2 Houston reports. Worse still, leftists couldn’t believe that a Mexican restaurant was openly embracing Trump’s attorney general, the figure behind the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

“A lot of these restaurants hire undocumented people, they hire immigrants to work, to take these long shifts, to serve people with a smile on their face, and you have this man, Jeff Sessions, who, consequentially, before visiting El Tiempo blamed a lot of the U.S. crime, a lot of the U.S. ills on immigrants. So you can’t have it both ways. You can’t be hypocritical and say, ‘I don’t like immigrants but I like what they contribute to the U.S. through their food and their culture,'” a “community activist” told local reporters.

The leftist fury became so intense, and the rhetoric so violent, that the restaurant pulled down its social media profiles, owner Roland Lorenzo told a local ABC affiliate.

“People are insulting us in such a dramatic fashion, and we feel like we don’t deserve it,” Laurenzo said. “At least temporarily I had it taken down because I don’t want to be insulted, my children to be insulted, my family to be insulted.”

He added that he had no advance notice that Sessions was going to dine in his restaurant.

The restaurant’s executive chef, Domenic Laurenzo, who appeared in the photo, made a public apology.

“The last thing I ever wanted to do was to upset everybody. It didn’t dawn on me until after that everyone was associating me with approving of the politics of Mr. Sessions and by no means is that the case. It’s been a big misunderstanding,” Laurenzo said.

Actual customers of El Tiempo were divided on the issue, but most are not taking part in a “national boycott” of El Tiempo, pushed by some of their social media critics.

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