'Whitexicans' restaurant raises eyebrows in Queens. The owner says the name is satire.

The questions, social media outrage and all-around facepalming began weeks before the new Mexican restaurant Whitexicans even opened in Queens.

Some of the hundreds of people who weighed in on Facebook and Reddit wondered if the name was a joke. Others said they were offended. But the restaurant, whose name is a mashup of white and Mexicans, is real, and opened earlier this month on Northern Boulevard in the heart of Jackson Heights.

Cristina Furlong, a longtime neighborhood resident and member of Community Board 3, wished the restaurant well on Facebook but urged the owners to change the name, given heightened immigration enforcement and “people self-deporting.”

“It’s very stressful in America right now to live under the Trump administration and live with such fear that our community