With the Chicago area feeling the weight and pressure of heightened federal enforcement activity across the region, a Chicago-based restaurateur has come under fire for his open support of President Donald Trump, inciting backlash against businesses he’s associated with, including one owned by his daughter.

Sam Sanchez — who owns Moe’s Cantina and other Chicago restaurants and is on the board of the National Restaurant Association — threw his support behind Trump last fall alongside other like-minded Latinos amid frustration with the Democratic Party for what they saw as a failure to provide comprehensive immigration reform.

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Sanchez and other Mexican American and

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