ICE Officer Politely Waits For Food Truck To Finish His Order Before Deporting Cook

“It’s definitely going to be hard to find a new favorite lunch spot,” stated John Donahue, an ICE officer in Los Angeles, CA.

Donahue has been a regular customer of the Taco Man Food Truck stationed on East 8th St for over 8 years.

“It’s my favorite place to go for lunch. They have the best tacos in all of LA, well, I guess had the best tacos,” Donahue recounts.

Donahue expressed the “light-bulb moment” he experienced while placing his order at the food truck, this Sunday:

“We’re under a lot of pressure to hit these arrest quotas. So I’m on my lunch break, and boom, it hits me. The guy right in front of me is Mexican. Why not just arrest him?”

He then proceeded to wait for his order of three baria tacos to be completed before arresting the cook who’d prepared them.

The 37-year-old cook, Joseph Flores, although of Mexican descent, was born in the United States. However, Donahue insists that’s not a problem.

“We see it all the time; These people who happen to be citizens based upon a minor technicality. Trust me, they get counted in the quota, same as the others,” Donahue stated.

Donahue admits that his line of work is not as easy as some may believe, and that he once held higher ambitions:

“When I graduated from high school, I applied to 12 colleges. Didn’t get into a single one. Then, I thought to myself, ‘Ok, fine, I’ll become a police officer.’ Unfortunately, they told me I was too ‘brain-dead’ to be a cop. Joining ICE was really the only option for someone like me,” Donahue confessed.

He continued to express the toll the job has taken on his mental state; “It’s really difficult,” he wept. “I’ve got a family at home, and now I have to break the news to them that we need to find a new Mexican take-out spot. I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.”

The whereabouts of Joseph Flores are unknown, as his lawyer and family are currently unable to locate him.