Immigration raids sapping business at Texas eateries | News

HOUSTON, Sept 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Oscar Garcia Santaella's Mexican restaurant is hurting badly as US immigration agents stage raids in Texas: his customers are afraid to leave home and some of his staff are wary of coming to work. Garcia, who is 54 and originally from Mexico, runs a variety of eateries and one is a normally bustling Houston-area taco joint called Los Primos. Its troubles are a microcosm of what is happening in restaurants elsewhere in Texas and around the country as President Donald Trump's administration presses on with his dogged campaign to arrest and expel people without residency papers. Most of Garcia's clientele is Latino, the ethnic group often targeted when Immigration and Customs agents pounce at...