That makes me happy. Grasiela Fratzke, who with her husband, William, own Ixtapa, heard about the LIFE Act from a newspaper and persuaded their chefs to apply. They all worry, she said, about immigration issues. One moment they can be here, the next they may not. You can hire almost anybody and train them to be a waitress.
Good cooks are hard to find.
Her husband, Junior Soliai, is a U.S. citizen from America Samoa, as is her daughter. Arceo makes the salsa, about 20 different kinds. He became a resident in 1991. His father brought him and his two brothers to Washington from Guadalajara, Mexico in 1986. Yesterday, he and his new wife, Martha, were completing papers to make sure that she will be allowed to stay with him in Seattle.