The founder of the chain “Trump Burger”, detained and placed under the deportation procedure. Support for US President did not help
The owner of a Donald Trump's themed restaurant chain in Texas risks being deported, after being detained by the immigration authorities under the president's coordination, according to The Guardian.
Roland Mehrez Beiny, 28, entered the US in 2019 as a “non-graming visitor” in Lebanon and should have left the country until February 12, 2024, a Guardian spokesman told the Imigration and Customs Service (ICE).
According to the Department of Internal Security (DHS), the newspaper record in Texas reported that Beain has requested a legal status after having married a woman, but the agency claims that there is no evidence that he had ever lived with her during the alleged marriage.
Ice said that his officers arrested Beiny on May 16, five years after he opened the first of several Trump Burger restaurants, and put him under a deportation procedure, according to a statement from the Agency.
“In the current administration, ICE is employed to restore the integrity of the country's immigration system, taking responsibility all the people who enter the country or exceed the approved stay,” the statement said.
“This is true no matter what restaurant you have or what political beliefs you have.”
In a statement to Houston Chronicle, Beainy rejected ICE accusations, saying: “Ninety percent of the nonsense they say are not true.” It has, provisionally, a programmed hearing at the Immigration Court on November 18th.
Trump Burger drew attention at national level after Beainy opened the first place in Bellville, Texas, in 2020, the same year in which Donald Trump lost the race for Joe Biden.
Full of souvenirs that glorifies Trump and with a satirical timetable menu to his political opponents, Beain's chain has later expanded to other locations, including Houston.
Trump won the second presidential term in January, and his administration quickly began to argue his promises regarding the mass deportation of immigrants. Trump's political supporters in the US without acts were not, in many cases, exempted.
An example that generated numerous titles in the press was that of a Canadian citizen who supports Trump's mass deportation plans-just for the federal authorities to retain it in California, while participating in an interview to obtain permanent residence in the US, and to describe it publicly, in a statement “.
In another case, ICE would have detained a Christian woman of Armenian origin from Iran, who lost her legal residence in the US (Green Card) after a sentence for qualified theft in 2008, loading her into a Federal Detention Center in California, despite her stated support for Trump. Her husband, with whom four American citizens grow up, subsequently put the difficult family situation on Biden's policies on “open borders”, as Newsweek reported.
According to Houston Chronicle, Beainy's detention is not his only legal issue. He sued the owner of the space in which a Trump Burger restaurant in Kemah, Texas, claimed that he had forced the employees and took over the premises.
The owner responded with his own trial, accusing Beainy of unpaid debts, and renamed the restaurant in Kemah “Magger”.
In 2022, Beiny told Houston Chronicle that he received threats with the burning of the first Trump Burger right at the time of opening, but the brand in the meantime created a faithful customer base, and some of the profits were directed to raising funds for Trump.
“I would love to have his blessing (Trump no) and come to us,” Beiny said. “We hope … to see the place.”
