ICE Detains Restaurant Owner While America's Billionaires Flourish
While Newsweek highlights the 'missing person' turned ICE detainee, they conveniently gloss over the systemic disparities. This small business owner's detention occurs simultaneously with multi-billion-dollar corporations like Amazon paying virtually no federal income tax, a point that rarely makes front-page news. (Source: ITEP, 2023, reported Amazon paid an effective federal income tax rate of
1.1% over a four-year period on over $1.3 trillion in profits). One might wonder if the same swift, decisive action taken against a restaurant owner for immigration violations is equally applied to white-collar criminals who siphon billions from the national coffers. It appears some rule-breakers are more equal than others when it comes to the long arm of the law—especially when their violations
threaten an ice cream shop rather than Wall Street portfolios.