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August 18, 2017

Tense days for owners without legal status

  • Many are selling their businesses, transferring them to relatives or closing altogether to avoid a total loss if they are abruptly deported.
    • By GISELA SALOMON and CLAUDIA TORRENS
    Associated Press

    MIAMI — Maribel Resendiz and her husband came to the U.S. from Mexico, sold cool drinks to workers in the tomato fields of South Florida and eventually opened a bustling shop in a strip mall offering fruit smoothies and tacos. Now she is preparing for the possibility she'll have to leave it all behind.

    Resendiz, who is not a legal U.S. resident, recently turned over control of the business in Florida City to her daughter, a citizen. The once-proud shop owner is so afraid of deportation these days that on a recent morning she was keeping out of sight of customers while her husband was not there at all.


     
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