SAD TROMBONE: Minneapolis Café That Offered Free Meals Until ICE Left the City is Going Out of Business

A restaurant in the city of Minneapolis called ‘Modern Times Café’ offered people free meals until ICE left the city. Now the café is going out of business.

Oh well.

Was it worth it? Did their stunning and brave protest make any difference? We’re pretty sure that ICE still has a presence in the city, even though they have already arrested thousands of people and started the deportation process for them.

It turns out that virtue signaling can be just as expensive as going woke.

FOX News reports:

Minneapolis restaurant that offered free meals to protest ICE raids announces closure

Modern Times Café, a Minneapolis restaurant that attempted to eliminate prices, has announced it will be closing for good by the end of the year.

“For the last six years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist,” owner Dylan Alverson wrote on social media Saturday. “I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is.”

He added that he plans to spend the next two months celebrating the 16-year-old business and discussing ways for a business like his to continue.

“The only way for places like Modern Times to exist in the future is to actively challenge the reasons why it can no longer exist,” Alverson wrote.

Alverson announced on Instagram in January that his business, which rebranded as Post Modern Times, would operate as a “free and donation-based restaurant” where everyone would be welcome “except ICE” in protest of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations happening in his state, partly in response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

“We absolutely cannot go on as we have. I am sick of generating money for the soldiers in our streets and for a government that won’t protect us — a government who is actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens,” Alverson wrote. “Effective tomorrow we are done making money for the fascists that occupy our city.”

Here’s a video report from happier times earlier this year:

ICE is just enforcing immigration laws written by members of Congress, including Democrats.

Funny how the left always overlooks that fact.

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