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How restaurants are pushing back on Trump's immigration crackdown

Working Lunch: This week's political podcast looks at how Chicago restaurants are making it clear ICE agents are not welcome. Is that a good idea?

In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies discuss the restaurant industry pushback on the Trump Administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown. 

In Chicago, some restaurants are posting signs saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are not welcome. They discuss the pros and cons of that effort, and whether the restaurant industry will become, once again, a political football.

And One Fair Wage has established a political action committee to advance candidates who endorse minimum wage increases and the elimination of the tip credit. What will that mean for both politics in big cities and for the industry more broadly?

 

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