Anonymous
Post 02/09/2025 18:08     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Where Manassas? Wheaton? People are scared.



I don’t understand why anyone would be afraid?

T-rump is only going after illegal immigrants. So why is anyone staying home?


Because if you are brown you are considered illegal until you prove otherwise.

Apparently some ICE agents didn’t realize if your are from Puerto Rico you are legal by birth.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2025 17:35     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:Where Manassas? Wheaton? People are scared.



I don’t understand why anyone would be afraid?

T-rump is only going after illegal immigrants. So why is anyone staying home?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2025 00:35     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Our Home Depot was busy yesterday. I have noticed that groups of men no longer stand outside 7-11 or the nearby shopping center parking lot looking for work. Overall there appears to be less people out on the streets in certain parts of town.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 23:07     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
A couple of restaurants in md were closed.,
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 21:49     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:The near me, usually full with immigrant families shopping, is empty--not exaggerating. You see a few African American, Indian, and White people and that is it.


I don’t know what Ratchet shopping mall you go to, but the shopping centers near my house are still very busy.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 21:05     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:You really think the illegal immigrants are choosing to go to their jobs (where most of the works are illegal), but are avoiding shopping malls? OK sure.


Many go to Home Depot and other stores to buy materials for handy man jobs they are doing under the table.

Now, they aren't.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 20:47     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:It’s the layoffs and economy tanking, if OP is even reporting truthfully. Trump’s raids are for show - very little has happened. They even tried to pass off pictures from Obama’s raids as current raids just for the propaganda machine.


Any credible source for that claim? No? Didn't think so. Keep on trollin'.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 20:20     Subject: Re:Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I don't see them hanging outside 7-11 or Home Depot anymore. Walmart is a lot less busier than usual. There were more cashiers than customers the other day, it was really strange to see.


Yes!!! That is the word, strange, it is almost eerie. It sorts feels like the 90s, when everything was just less crowded overall.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 20:08     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Troll harder
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 20:05     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Op, to answer you ... in my community, no one in the usually packed Mexican Taco/Market, and I say this knowing that it is wall to wall hispanic on any given day with no parking in front because my office are usually the only non hispanics in there, we laugh about it all the time. Also, no workers hanging around my local Home Depot in the mornings and most of the painting crews in my neighborhood (lots of repairs going on) have postponed some of the projects and my neighbors are boiling over mad about it since we are in an area where it is difficult to engage talented contractors since there is so much work. Another thing I've noticed recently, the McDonalds I go past three or four times a day and usually has very little line at the drive thru, all of a sudden is doubled lane packed all day. I suspect most of the contractors not going into our local Mexican businesses are just opting for the drive thru at this point. Can't blame them. Definitely a shift in behavior where I live. A noticeable shift.


I don't believe talented contractors need to hang around the Home Depot parking lot looking for work.


PP was making two separate points…that the contractors are now losing workers on their crews and separately there are not day laborers hanging around outside HD.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 20:00     Subject: Re:Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Yes. I don't see them hanging outside 7-11 or Home Depot anymore. Walmart is a lot less busier than usual. There were more cashiers than customers the other day, it was really strange to see.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 19:50     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:Op, to answer you ... in my community, no one in the usually packed Mexican Taco/Market, and I say this knowing that it is wall to wall hispanic on any given day with no parking in front because my office are usually the only non hispanics in there, we laugh about it all the time. Also, no workers hanging around my local Home Depot in the mornings and most of the painting crews in my neighborhood (lots of repairs going on) have postponed some of the projects and my neighbors are boiling over mad about it since we are in an area where it is difficult to engage talented contractors since there is so much work. Another thing I've noticed recently, the McDonalds I go past three or four times a day and usually has very little line at the drive thru, all of a sudden is doubled lane packed all day. I suspect most of the contractors not going into our local Mexican businesses are just opting for the drive thru at this point. Can't blame them. Definitely a shift in behavior where I live. A noticeable shift.


I don't believe talented contractors need to hang around the Home Depot parking lot looking for work.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 18:56     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Throne ear me is very empty now, not because of fear of raids, but fear of the Republicans tanking the economy.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 18:56     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Op, to answer you ... in my community, no one in the usually packed Mexican Taco/Market, and I say this knowing that it is wall to wall hispanic on any given day with no parking in front because my office are usually the only non hispanics in there, we laugh about it all the time. Also, no workers hanging around my local Home Depot in the mornings and most of the painting crews in my neighborhood (lots of repairs going on) have postponed some of the projects and my neighbors are boiling over mad about it since we are in an area where it is difficult to engage talented contractors since there is so much work. Another thing I've noticed recently, the McDonalds I go past three or four times a day and usually has very little line at the drive thru, all of a sudden is doubled lane packed all day. I suspect most of the contractors not going into our local Mexican businesses are just opting for the drive thru at this point. Can't blame them. Definitely a shift in behavior where I live. A noticeable shift.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 18:52     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:bs op where? Funny you left this out.


No it is not funny because I asked if anyone say the phenomenon in their local mall. I didn't say have you seen this in my local mall because I don't need confirmation because I saw it with my own eyes.


Sure you did.


It doesn't matter what you think, what your snappy comebacks are. We can't wish the truth way or make it cleverly go away with retorts on the internet. So your "sure you did" doesn't manifest action or change or transform reality. So pretend what I said in the OP post is not true. I can't control your mind.


The malls are packed. You are the one trying to pretend to further your stupid narrative, but it doesn't reflect reality.
Everyone that has been to the local malls knows this.


Ok this seems personal to you. Believe what you want. I don't care. You use the works stupid but facts and reality aren't stupid. I don't assume all mall are affected sounds like the one near you is not. Fine. Again, I don’t care. I don't care if a mall is affected or not. I am not saying all are. Hence my question in the OP, which I stand by. I don't care if you don't like my question or think it is stupid.