Seattle eateries offer support for immigrant rights

Seattle eateries serving up support for immigrant rights

If you eat out this weekend, you might notice some businesses across Seattle are raising money for immigrant rights. It comes after the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, which has led to protests across the country, including Seattle.

SEATTLE - If you eat out this weekend, you might notice some businesses across Seattle are raising money for immigrant rights. It comes after the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, which has led to protests across the country, including Seattle.

By the numbers:

Now, more than 150 businesses across the Emerald City are participating in this weekend’s Immigrant Rights Fundraiser. The participating restaurants and bars are lending their support to those rights with each drink and meal they serve.

At Life on Mars in Capitol Hill, they are giving one dollar of each one of the "I Never Loved You" cocktails ordered, as well as other drinks of theirs, to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

Bartender Kristian Dunn created the cocktail and is happy that his employers are supporting the cause.

What they're saying:

"Immigrants are a founding part of this country, this economy and they are in any facet of any industry--whether it be the restaurant industry, the tech industry, the construction industry, you name it, immigrants are there. I think it’s incredibly valuable, especially in the service industry where there are a ton of immigrants that we are helping and supporting them in this very dire time when immigrants are being attacked right now," Dunn said.

Brett Francis is a co-manager at the Other Coast Café in Ballard. "At the end of the day, all these people are part of our community," Francis said.

With every sandwich they sell, he told FOX 13, one dollar will go to a multitude of different organizations. He added, as a worker, he’s proud of what they’re doing and the reaction from their customers has also been positive.

"Especially during such a tumultuous time, it personally makes me feel really good that we’re able to help even just a little bit," Francis said. The fundraiser is through Sunday.

The Source: Information for this article comes from original interviews from FOX 13.