{"id":24708,"date":"2025-06-29T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24708\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:36:20","slug":"texas-starbucks-customer-blanca-lopez-handed-offensive-joke-on-coffee-referring-to-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24708\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Starbucks customer Blanca Lopez handed &#8216;offensive&#8217; joke on coffee referring to illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas Starbucks customer claims she and her culture were the target of an \u201coffensive\u201d joke written on the lid of her drink by one of the store\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n<p>Blanca Lopez, who is Hispanic, ordered a horchata latte during a trip with her two daughters to the Starbucks inside the Irving, Texas Target store on June 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/its-offensive-starbucks-joke-leaves-hispanic-customer-feeling-targeted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Texas reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of Lopez\u2019s daughters noticed their mother\u2019s cup had a message scribbled in black marker across the clear lid, an abnormality for a company known for writing customer names on the side of its products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you call a sick eagle?\u201d the cup asked, according to a photo<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/its-offensive-starbucks-joke-leaves-hispanic-customer-feeling-targeted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>obtained by the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal,\u201d the riddle answered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Blanca Lopez stands outside the Irving, Texas Target where she was handed the offensive joke at the Starbucks location inside the store on June 23, 2025. CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was left in shock by the joke written on her order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically saying that we are sick, illegal individuals that do not belong in this country,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez recalled her confusion when she first saw the message, unsure if the note was a light-hearted joke or an attack on her identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I read it, I\u2019m like, OK. Was I supposed to laugh or what do I need to do?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s-_wpj7OqFU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told the outlet. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you call a sick eagle?\u201d the cup asked. \u201cIllegal.\u201d CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The Starbucks outlet inside the Target in Irving, Texas. CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did they call me that? Why are they asking if I have papers or no papers? Why did she write this?\u201d she added. \u201cFor me, like, it\u2019s offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said the joke hit close to home as she had friends and relatives deported because they were in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>In January, 84 illegal immigrants were arrested during an ICE raid in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/ice-arrests-84-illegal-immigrants-dfw-over-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Fox 4.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outraged customer reported the joke to the store\u2019s manager, who told her there would be a team meeting to ensure it didn\u2019t happen again, CBS Texas reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez recalled her confusion when she first saw the message, unsure if the note was a light-hearted joke or an attack at her identity. CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said the joke hit close to home as she had friends and relatives deported because they were in the country illegally. CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Lopez called for the unidentified barista to be fired over the comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work as a manager. If someone on my team did something like that, I would fire her immediately,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Community activists soon heard about the story and began planning a gathering at the store to meet the \u201cauthor of the offensive joke,\u201d Dallas-based protester Carlos Quintanilla wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Quintanilla planned for other protesters to arrive at the shopping center at 10 a.m. on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Quintanilla speaks out against the message outside the Target on June 27, 2025. CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Community activists soon heard about the story and began planning a gathering at the store, to meet the \u201cauthor of the offensive joke.\u201d CBS TEXAS\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, he canceled the gathering after no one showed up.<\/p>\n<p>However, he still walked into the Target, livestreaming for his Facebook followers, in search of the Starbucks, but was stopped by a store employee who told him to leave the building because he was recording inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to organize our community to raise their voice, I understand that protesting is already very difficult but acting is quite simple. Even Starbucks and Target have responded to our insistence to clarify their position on the offensive \u2018ILLEGAL\u2019 advertisement,\u201d Quintanilla wrote. \u201cLet\u2019s suspend our protest in forgiveness and let\u2019s Protest in Silence!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post has reached out to Starbucks and Target.<\/p>\n<p>Quintanilla defended the illegal immigrants living in his community while outside the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just inappropriate, it\u2019s disturbing,\u201d he told CBS Texas. \u201cEspecially right now, when the narrative being thrown out in mass media is if you\u2019re illegal, you\u2019re a criminal, and if you\u2019re a criminal, you\u2019re illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas Starbucks customer claims she and her culture were the target of an \u201coffensive\u201d joke written on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,16090,22195,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-24708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-illegal-immigrants","10":"tag-starbucks","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114767159867966406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708","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=24708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}