Anthony Bourdain Hits Donald Trump Immigration Plan, Calls Immigrants ‘Backbone’ of Industry

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may think he has a plan for immigration reform, but if you ask restaurateur Anthony Bourdain, well, the hopeful's plan will only succeed in completely crumbling the restaurant industry.

Bourdain recently appeared on Sirius XM and told Pete Dominick that "every restaurant in America would shut down" if Trump were to actually enforce his immigration plan.

Having spent over three decades in the restaurant industry, Bourdain notes that it's always an immigrant who has been at restaurants the longest, and that they are in fact the "backbone" of the restaurant industry.

Trump's plan calls for closed borders between the Unites States and Mexico through the construction of a "big, beautiful" wall, which the GOP hopeful will allegedly force Mexico to pay for. Furthermore, there's an end to birthright citizenship and a deportation of illegals.

 #AnthonyBourdain said that in his decades in the restaurant business, #CentralAmerican and #Mexican restaurant workers have been “the backbone of the industry. Never in any of those years, not once, did any American-born kid walk into my restaurant and say I’d like a job as a night porter or a dish washer, even a prep cook." Just some food for thought #DonaldTrump

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During Bourdain's interview, however, he admits that we need those immigrants. The restaurateur tells Dominick that he never once saw anyone born in the United States come in and ask for a "lower-ranking" job at a restaurant.

"Never in any of those years, not once did anyone walk into my restaurant, any American-born kid, walk into my restaurant and say, 'I want a job as a night porter,' or a dishwasher – even a prep cook." With that, he claims that shows such as Top Chef are only making students getting out of culinary school feel as if they are entitled and reluctant to start from the bottom and go up.

"All the kids coming out of culinary school, they don't want to do the prep job. They're like- they show up with their little knife roll-up and a white coffee filter on their head and they say, 'When do I get to be on Top Chef?' 'When do I get my own show?' 'What do you mean, I have to clean squid for a year?'"