New York man threatens to report Spanish-speaking staff to authorities

Local media report that the man seen in the video is a New York-based lawyer (BBC) – A video of a man threatening to report Spanish-speaking restaurant workers to US immigration authorities in New York has gone viral on social media. The footage shows a customer berating staff for speaking Spanish at the premises in Manhattan. “Your staff are speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” he tells one employee. He then threatens to call the US deportation force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “My guess is they’re not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country,” he says. Other patrons at the restaurant can be seen laughing at the man during the incident on Tuesday, which was captured in footage posted on Facebook and contains some strong language. Social media users have strongly criticised the man in the video, who local media report is a New York-based lawyer. ICE later criticised the recorded threat to report workers to the agency. “ICE’s Tip Line is solely for the purposes of making legitimate reports of suspected criminal activity,” Rachael Yong Yow, the spokeswoman for the New York… Read full this story

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