An Arab-Mexican fusion concept is opening a brick-and-mortar midtown Sacramento restaurant after nearly two years of pop-ups, filling the shoes of one of the city’s deepest-rooted watering holes.

The story of De Saad, a third-generation Arab-Mexican, exemplifies the lives many immigrants have had, and she considers herself a proud inheritor of the country’s Lebanese traditions.

Enrique Serrano, an official in Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juárez is located, said the tents erected for Mexican deportees were just the initial phase of a potential larger operation, and something ...