Anthony Bourdain recently weighed in on Donald Trump's plans to deport immigrants.

"If Mr. Trump deports 11 million people or whatever he’s talking about right now, every restaurant in America would shut down," Bourdain said.

While speaking on Sirius radio, the 59-year-old professional foodie cited his 30 years of restaurant experience to back up his claim that Latin American migrants were vital to the industry.

“I walked into restaurants and always, the person who had been there the longest, who took the time to show me how it was done, was always Mexican or Central American," Bourdain said.

Bourdain said immigrants were simply willing to do the jobs that U.S. citizens would not. In all his time working as the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York, he never once encountered a young U.S.-born applicant who came in looking for work as a night porter or dishwasher.

Bourdain went on to suggest chefs across the country would agree with his stance on Trump's deportation plan because, if enforced, their businesses would suffer.

"Look, it’s tough. It’s a very difficult business for small operators," he said.

As reported by MSN, Bourdain has had problems with Trump before, saying the leading GOP candidate offended him and even ridiculing the real estate magnate’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Meanwhile, the outspoken restaurant industry advocate recently lent his support to sushi chefs being forced by New York’s Department of Health to wear gloves while preparing raw fish.

As quoted in Eater, he said, “You cannot make sushi through plastic surgical gloves. You can't. This is monstrous, monstrous, monstrous. It's the destruction of sushi as we know it.”