{"id":243025,"date":"2025-09-21T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:57:09","slug":"upper-darby-celebrates-8th-annual-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243025\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby celebrates 8th annual International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But amid the festivities, the mood was subdued for some residents.<\/p>\n<p>Anel P\u00e9rez, owner of El General Zapata, a Mexican restaurant in Upper Darby, said the turnout Saturday was much lower compared to previous years.<\/p>\n<p>She said she thinks it\u2019s due to fear of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/ice-raids-norristown-princeton-community-aid-immigrant-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ramped-up immigration enforcement<\/a> in the region. P\u00e9rez said some of her clients have told her they\u2019re hesitant to leave the house, and sometimes order food for delivery instead of coming to the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHa sido dif\u00edcil porque hay mucha gente que est\u00e1 con miedo\u201d, dijo. \u201cNo quiere salir, no quiere arriesgarse, pero yo pienso que tenemos que hacerlo por necesidad porque tenemos que trabajar, tenemos que pagar renta, tenemos que mantener a nuestros hijos, nuestros negocios, los que tienen negocios, y si no trabajamos no comemos\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been hard because a lot of people are afraid,\u201d she said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to go out, they don\u2019t want to risk it, but I think that we have to do it out of necessity, because we need to work, we need to pay rent, we need to support our children, our businesses, those of us that have businesses, and if we don\u2019t work we don\u2019t eat.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But amid the festivities, the mood was subdued for some residents. Anel P\u00e9rez, owner of El General Zapata,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7282,4084,1448,2830,1311,2065,67,586,132,5230,129660,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-243025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delaware-county","10":"tag-festival","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-upper-darby","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243025","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=243025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}