01/28/2026
Small Business in MN are hit hard right now especially non-caucasian restaurants/food trucks too scared to remain open. Eggroll Queen is a fellow vendor of Bisek Bees at the St. Paul Farmers' Market in Burnsville. Please support them if you are able.
*Why We’re Afraid and Why We Closed Most of Our Food Trucks*
We are U.S. citizens.
My children were born in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Most of my employees were born in Wisconsin or Minnesota.
This is our home.
And yet, we are afraid.
Citizenship is supposed to mean safety. Right now, it doesn’t.
I’ve always understood the fear undocumented people live with. I never expected to feel it myself—as a citizen—because of how we look. When ICE stops people in public and demands proof, the message is clear: faces matter more than papers.
Most of my team was born here. A few elders immigrated decades ago and became naturalized citizens. Many people born here don’t even have passports. Now we’re expected to carry documents everywhere, just to exist.
Fear turns into terror when people are taken first and questioned later. When people disappear without phone calls. When even white U.S. citizens are detained or shot in public—despite witnesses and video—like the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. When agents walk away and call it self-defense.
When truth is recorded and still ignored, what chance do people like us have?
We’re Asian.
We’re not powerful.
We’re not famous.
We’re a small, family business trying to protect our people.
Which business owner would choose to shut down and suffer financially?
No one.
We did.
We closed most of our food truck locations because staying alive matters more than money. No sale is worth one employee being hurt, detained, or killed. Watching a decade of work fall apart is heartbreaking—but losing a life would destroy me forever.
My father served in the U.S. Army.
My middle son and my brother-in-law are Marine veterans.
My sister served in the Air Force.
My brother is a St. Paul police officer.
Even with all of that, there is still no guarantee of safety.
The fear deepened when Vice President JD Vance said ICE agents have “absolute immunity” when acting in the line of duty. If there is no accountability, there may be no justice. Our community has already felt this—like what happened to ChongLy Thao, an elder and longtime U.S. citizen.
I live with the fear that one of my employees could cross paths with the wrong person at the wrong time and never come home the same—or at all.
I’m afraid because facts don’t come first anymore.
Because trauma doesn’t care about paperwork.
Because once harm happens, citizenship can’t undo it.
So when people say, “Don’t be scared,” I ask: how?
How do I tell my children not to be afraid when adults are taken, hurt, or killed—and life just moves on?
I pray this ICE blizzard doesn’t last much longer.
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You can help us survive this ICE blizzard by:
* Catering with us or placing pre-orders
* Visiting our pop-up food truck or stopping by the kitchen for lunch or dinner
* Purchasing gift cards
- Email: **[eggrollqueenfoodtruck@gmail.com]**
- We’ll invoice you and mail the cards
- Available in $10 or $25
* Paying it forward or donating via Venmo
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- We deliver food to a family in need
* Sharing our weekly pop-up locations
* Stopping by to check in on our “children”—our team
* Subscribing to our Freezer Club
* Signing up for an egg roll rolling class:
https://eggrollqueen.square.site/
Every order matters.
Every share matters.
Every visit matters.
Thank you for standing with us.
