Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

04/06/2025 07:19 AM EDT


LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.

When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents of Los Fresnos were shocked. Abby’s Bakery doesn’t employ violent criminals and Baez and Avila-Guel are not the people who border czar Tom Homan calls the “worst of the worst” and says are the priority for mass deportations.

“I was surprised because I know that they’re not taking advantage of the people,” Esteban Rodriguez, 43, said after pulling into the bakery’s parking lot to discover it was closed. “It was more like helping out people. They didn’t have nowhere to go, instead of them being on the streets.”

The reaction in the town of 8,500 residents may show the limits of support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in a majority Hispanic region dotted with fields of cotton, sugarcane and red grapefruit where Republicans made gains in last year’s elections. Cameron County voted for a GOP president for the first time since 2004. For neighboring Starr County, it was the first time since 1896.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/texas-county-that-swung-to-trump-grapples-with-immigration-crackdown-after-bakery-is-targeted-00274417

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AAs protested for DECADES about "driving while black", "walking while black", being targeted by zip code and/or by first name (as the surnames were often not-indicative due to the long history of slavery and taking on the owner's surnames) and even any "dialect" detected when communicating by phone.

There were yawns out of some communities, including immigrant communities. They looked down on AAs with disdain, believing the racist bullshit being spewed. There was little or no comprehension about how this country operates with its "code talk", designations of "token" or "honorary" groups, and how, on a whim, it can turn on anyone in an instant, including those "token" / "honorary" groups.

Welcome to (the real) America.

[mercuryblues]

1. leopard/face/party

[magicarpet]

2. Leopard says,.. those cheeks and noses taste good.

Yum-yum.

[Marcuse]

8. "But...but I am a leopard! There must be some mistake."

[wolfie001]

7. I'm outta sympathy

Plumb dry.

[Grins]

3. They VOTED to bring suffering to those who did them no harm.

They should be reminded of that FACT every day.

[nycbos]

4. Spanish version of Leopards Ate My Face

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[BidenRocks]

5. Collateral Damage

You might want to be INFORMED voters next time.
FAFO has widespread Karma.
How many protestors stated they voted for chump to inflict pain on the other than white. Used to be WASP.
Then they were impacted.
Fuck off. You voted for this!
Now instead of empanadas, you get Little Debbie.
Go Leopards!
This is so bad I want them all to suffer. Every last Chump voter.
ICE will get you tomorrow citizen, green card or not.

[tanyev]

6. Two counties that voted for a GOP president for the first time since 2004 and 1896.

Well how did that work out? Just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the nice, competent lady who had a black father and an Indian mother.

[SARose]

14. Actually they did

Trump - 52%
Harris 46%

Ted Cruz 46%
Colin Allred 52%

67% are Catholic

[Lonestarblue]

9. Trump clearly promised over and over that he would deport all 11 million undocumented people.

What on earth did they think that meant if not local workers, restaurant and other business owners, people who have been a part of communities for many years? I suppose they thought he would only deport black migrants since he is a racist and hates them.

[Beartracks]

10. Los FAFOs, TX?

[Blue Ozarks]

11. No empathy or sympathy......

for those who voted against their own lives.

They ignored many warnings to screw themselves over.
Too bad.

[Nasruddin]

12. ¡Qu lstima!

There was a widespread .... myth or meme in Latin communities in the US that Trump, once elected, was only going to deport the bad guys, the criminals, the gang members, not the good people.

Well what cop ever searches out dangerous desperate criminals? That's for specialists and lunatics. You can meet your quota going and picking up peaceful types whose papers aren't in order, who aren't going to extract the full price for messing with them.

[Ray Bruns]

13. Yes they are! They're brown aren't they?

“Abby’s Bakery doesn’t employ violent criminals and Baez and Avila-Guel are not the people who border czar Tom Homan calls the ‘worst of the worst’ and says are the priority for mass deportations”

[LiberalArkie]

15. I wonder what they are going to do when they come for the Patels and other Asians?

On the old check box for registration for just about everything. There was the
1. White
2. Jew
3. Negro
4. Other colored

Any box but number 1 was Colored. And simply put had to use the colored fountain or entrance or bathroom etc.

[AllyCat]

16. They aren't grappling with this.

They voted for it.

[Pototan]

17. I didn't think when Trump said that he was

going to crack down on immigrants thither meant me and my friends,

FAFO