{"id":132033,"date":"2025-08-09T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:29:10","slug":"trump-burger-owner-in-texas-faces-deportation-after-ice-arrest-us-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132033\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest | US immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner of a Donald Trump<\/a>-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him.<\/p>\n

Roland Mehrez Beainy, 28, entered the US as \u201ca non-immigrant visitor\u201d from Lebanon in 2019 and was supposed to have left the country by 12 February 2024, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spokesperson told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

Citing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Texas\u2019s Fayette County Record<\/a> newspaper reported that Beainy applied for legal status after purportedly wedding a woman \u2013 but the agency maintained there is no proof he ever lived with her during the alleged marriage.<\/p>\n

Ice said its officers arrested Beainy on 16 May \u2013 five years after he launched the first of multiple Trump Burger locations \u2013 and placed him into immigration proceedings, an agency statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the current administration, Ice is committed to restore integrity to our nation\u2019s immigration system by holding all individuals accountable who illegally enter the country or overstay the terms of their admission,\u201d the agency\u2019s statement also said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is true regardless of what restaurant you own or political beliefs you might have.\u201d<\/p>\n

In remarks to the Houston Chronicle<\/a>, Beainy denied Ice\u2019s charges against him, saying: \u201cNinety percent of the shit they\u2019re saying is not true.\u201d He is tentatively scheduled for a hearing in immigration court on 18 November.<\/p>\n

Trump Burger gained national attention after Beainy opened the original location in Bellville, Texas<\/a>, in 2020, the same year Trump lost his bid for a second presidential term to Joe Biden. Replete with memorabilia paying reverence to Trump as well as politically satirical menu items targeting his enemies, Beainy\u2019s chain expanded to other locations, including Houston.<\/p>\n

Trump won a second presidency in January, and his administration summarily began delivering on promises to pursue mass deportations of immigrants. Political supporters of Trump in the US without papers, at least in many cases, have not been spared.<\/p>\n

One case<\/a> which generated considerable news headlines was that of a Canadian national who supported Trump\u2019s plans for mass deportation of immigrants \u2013 only for federal authorities to detain her in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency and publicly describe her in a statement as \u201can illegal alien from Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n

In another instance, Ice reportedly<\/a> detained a Christian Armenian Iranian woman who lost her legal permanent US residency, or green card, after a 2008 burglary conviction and incarcerated her at a federal detention facility in California despite her vocal support of Trump. Her husband, with whom she is raising four US citizen children, subsequently blamed the couple\u2019s plight on Biden\u2019s \u201cdoing for open borders\u201d, as Newsweek noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beainy\u2019s detention by Ice is not his only legal plight, according to the Houston Chronicle. He sued the landlord of a Trump Burger location in Kemah, Texas, whom Beainy claimed forcibly removed staff and took over the restaurant.<\/p>\n

The landlord responded with his own lawsuit accusing Beainy of unpaid debts and renamed the Kemah restaurant Maga Burger.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Beainy told the Houston Chronicle he endured threats to have Trump Burger burned down when the first one opened its doors. But the brand had since gained a loyal following and a portion of its profits were set aside to aid Trump\u2019s fundraising, Beainy said to the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to have [Trump\u2019s] blessing and have him come by,\u201d Beainy said<\/a> at the time. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping that he \u2026 sees the place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-132033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999523035156441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}