HOUSTON, Texas. – The restaurant “Picos” in Houston has received threats through messages on social networks to call ICE and report the employees after the managers said they would continue to force the use of masks inside the establishment.
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Faced with this new panorama in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, many restaurant and business owners expressed their concern about what this challenge represents. “It cannot be that after 11 months, after spending everything we have gone through, the expenses we have incurred, everything we have done to keep the pandemic out of our restaurant (…) from one moment to the next we will change “said Arnaldo Richards, owner of the restaurant” Picos “in an interview with Univision 45.
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After maintaining this position, as other Texas businesses have done, the restaurant managers told the press that they had been receiving messages and calls threatening to call ICE for requiring the use of masks.
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“For people to be negative towards us for trying to stay safe, so this doesn’t continue to happen, it just doesn’t make sense to us,” Monica Richards, co-owner of the restaurant, told the newspaper. The Washington Post.
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Arnaldo Richards said that “it is not any criticism of the governor” but they would maintain the use of masks and all the measures that have been implemented in the last 11 months of the pandemic.
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The news about the threats alleged by the restaurant’s owners sparked several messages of support from their clientele. “Picos” has been serving Mexican food in the Houston area for almost 40 years.
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“We were already starting to have that light at the end of the tunnel, however, we are not yet vaccinated, we are missing a lot of people in this state,” said the expert. Varón explained that Texas is not one of the states with the highest number of vaccinated residents, due to the refusal of many people.
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