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Restaurant Under Fire For 'Illegal Immigrant' T-shirts Worn by Staff

By Erik Ortiz, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Credit: Photograph: Corey Hutchins/Twitt

A t-shirt being worn and sold at Taco Sid, in South Carolina, describes "How to Catch an Illegal Immigrant." The drawing is of a box with a stick being held over two tacos--a makeshift trap.

January 9, 2013 Updated Jan 9, 2013 at 12:16 PM PDT

A South Carolina Mexican restaurant is defending itself against accusations of racism for selling a t-shirt that describes “how to catch an illegal immigrant” using two tacos and a trap.

Taco Cid, in West Columbia, says the shirts are “comical” and a reasonable political statement about immigration policy in the United States.

The shirts read “how to catch an illegal immigrant” and then a cartoon shows two tacos under a box with a cord, similar to a mousetrap. An employee wearing the shirt caught the eye of a reporter for the Columbia Free Times, who tweeted a picture on Sunday saying the message was “stirring controversy.”

Minority rights groups have slammed the message as insensitive and as a ploy to drum up business.

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