A sandwich shop owner in northern California has come under fire for a publicity stunt offering customers who say “send her back” a free side dish. John Canesa, who runs Canesa’s Brooklyn Heros deli in the town of Clayton, north of San Francisco, launched the promotion on Facebook in a show of support for recent comments by President Donald Trump targeting left-leaning ethnic minority lawmakers. The gimmick was inspired by racist chants of “send her back” aimed at Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American former refugee, that broke out at a Trump rally in North Carolina earlier this month.
