Watch Man Threaten, Insult Spanish-Speaking Staff At NYC Cafe

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — A man threatened to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the employees of a Midtown lunch spot Tuesday, according to a video posted to Facebook.

The man, who is white, began berating employees of Fresh Kitchen for speaking Spanish with customers. A video of the outburst was posted to Facebook by a man named Edward Suazo, who said his wife and best friend recorded the hateful display.

"Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English," the man is seen telling a manager at the eatery.

When the manager tries to diffuse the situation by saying that sometimes his staff speaks Spanish to customers, the man begins pointing out people he heard speaking Spanish. Several customers eventually begin to heckle the man, which sets him off further.

As he appears to be leaving the business, the man turns around and claims that he's going to call ICE and get the workers deported.

"My guess is they're not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country,” the man says. “They have the balls to come here and live off of my money? I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to be here. The least they could do, the least they could do is speak English.”

Former Daily News columnist Shaun King tweeted that the man in the video is a lawyer. A message left with the law firm was not immediately returned.

The man who posted the video said that the waiter was speaking to his wife and best friend in Spanish. The man who is seen complaining was not involved in the conversation, according to the poster. Suazo's video has been viewed more than 900,000 times and shared more than 25,000 times.

Check out the full video below:

Lead photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement