Trump supporter 'thrown out of Mexican restaurant in New York because she was wearing a campaign hat'

  • Esther Levy, 61, claims she was thrown out of the Cancun Inn eatery 
  • The family-run Mexican restaurant says it doesn't discriminate over politics
  • Claims patrons were told to leave as they were 'rowdy due to intoxication'  
  • Ms Levy says they 'screamed' they 'do not serve Trump supporters'
  • Trump plans to build 1,000-mile border fence between Mexico and the U.S.

By Sarah Dean For Mailonline

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A Donald Trump supporter has claimed she was thrown out of a Mexican restaurant in New York for wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat and button.

Esther Levy visited the Cancun Inn eatery in Sugar Loaf, NY, with a retired local judge after coming back from a July 4th Great American Weekend Festival on Sunday.

'We were about to place our order with the waitress when she was summoned by the co-owner and told to not serve us and say we had to leave right away,' a shocked Ms Levy claimed.

In an outraged post on the New York For Donald Trump 2016 Facebook page, the 61-year-old alleged: 'The co-owner threw us out while screaming at me that he does not serve Trump supporters and we have to leave right away and never come back.'

Ms Levy told MailOnline she is 'still in shock and can barely eat or sleep since the incident'.

Esther Levy claims she was wearing her 'Make America Great Again' when she visited the Mexican restaurant

Esther Levy claims she was wearing her 'Make America Great Again' when she visited the Mexican restaurant

Ms Levy says the co-owner of the Cancun Inn eatery was 'screaming at me that he does not serve Trump supporters'

Ms Levy says the co-owner of the Cancun Inn eatery was 'screaming at me that he does not serve Trump supporters'

After complaining to the restaurant via their Facebook page, she was reportedly told they 'were thrown out for being rude to the staff and customers (we were seated alone)'.

The Cancun Inn disputes Ms Levy's claim that she was thrown out for being a Trump supporter and says they would never 'discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference or political beliefs'.

The owner of the embattled family run restaurant, which has received criticism on social media since Ms Levy made her claim, said in a statement: 'There was an unfortunate situation that was brought to my attention yesterday where claims of discrimination were made by patrons of the restaurant.

'An employee of ours asked the patrons to leave because they were being rude to the staff and rowdy due to intoxication.'

The restaurant says it is investigating the incident and they would 'never discriminate against anyone based one race, religion, gender, sexual preference or political beliefs'

The restaurant says it is investigating the incident and they would 'never discriminate against anyone based one race, religion, gender, sexual preference or political beliefs'

Ms Levy said she was shocked after the alleged incident and has reported it to the police 

Ms Levy said she was shocked after the alleged incident and has reported it to the police 

He explained that he was 'personally looking into the facts' and would like to speak with the customers involved.

'We've always treated our customers with the utmost respect and dignity - we have always treated them as one of the family. This business is our livelihood; something we've built from the ground up 25 years ago and take these allegations made against us very seriously,' he added.

Ms Levy fired back on her Facebook page that 'all we did was sit quietly at the table where we were seated… when our waitress approached to take our orders - then she was summoned and I could hear a bellowing voice telling her not to serve us'.

In an interview with the New York Post, she claimed: 'She [the waitress] seemed very surprised by it all and was told to refuse us service. We just got up and started to leave.' 

MailOnline has contacted the Cancun Inn for comment.

The restaurant incident comes after presidential candidate Trump last year claimed Mexico is 'dumping' its worst citizens including 'rapists and drug dealers' at the U.S. border.

He later said he's 'proud' to know 'many hard working Mexicans - many of them are working for and with me…and, just like our country, my organization is better for it.'

But those people legally emigrated to the U.S., he said.

In May, the 70-year-old promised that if he's elected as president he would force Mexico to pay for a border wall by threatening to cut off payments that immigrants send home to the country.

The controversial 1,000-mile border fence has been a key feature to his presidential campaign.

 

New York

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