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muriel_volestrangler

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6. Because Andrés is kind. He's a liberal, by deed, even if he never expresses a "political view".
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 05:04 PM
Jan 2025

Plus Andrés called him out in 2015 for being anti-immigrant:

Andrés is also engaged in a legal battle with President Trump, who sued him after the chef backed out of a deal to open a restaurant in Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel. Andrés pulled out of the deal after Trump referred to Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and as people "bringing drugs" and "bringing crime" while announcing his candidacy for president in June 2015.

"We have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in America," Andrés says. "They are part of the American DNA. They are taking care of our farms, our golf clubs, our wineries, our fishing boats" — and, of course, American restaurants. "We need to be giving those 11 million undocumented in America the right to finally belong," he says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/15/515441650/chef-jos-andr-s-to-close-restaurants-for-day-without-immigrants

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