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Posted on 07/11/2026 11:31:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
In Mayor Karen Bass’s Los Angeles, the rule of law is separate and not equal when it comes to street food — with illegal immigrants and rogue vendors getting a free pass on violations while citizen restaurateurs and licensed food stands are subjected to fines, high costs, burdensome regulations, and even closures.
In short, L.A. and the surrounding counties have two sets of rules.
Other progressively-run cities like New York and Minneapolis also are catering to “vulnerable” and undocumented immigrant street vendors. But California is leading the way in sanctuary food practices.
The Los Angeles County Health Department, citing immigration enforcement efforts by the Trump administration, last fall suspended all enforcement of thousands of noncompliant street food vendors who have proliferated with the massive influx of illegals under the Biden administration.
With the labor market flooded with cheap migrant labor and the increasingly high cost of living in the Golden State, migrants were already ignoring regulations and licensing requirements to openly prepare and sell their native countries’ meals on sidewalks and curbsides.
The health department suspended enforcement despite nearly 3,000 food poisoning complaints reported to the county in 2025, with health officials suspecting many more went unreported. If someone gets seriously ill from unlicensed street food, undocumented operators are typically uninsured and can easily disappear before being held accountable.
Meanwhile, compliant restaurants and food stands are subject to a myriad of sanitation rules, labor costs, insurance coverage, bureaucratic paperwork, regular inspections, and ratings posted in their windows as well as having to pay permit and operating fees.
“Imagine putting your life savings into opening a restaurant,” one Angelino named KingOf98580 wrote on social media. “You do everything legally, pay rent, employees, taxes, business licenses, and a street food vendor pops up across the street ....
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Anarcho-Tyranny
Back in the day, a local Mehican restaurant got popped for chopping up a goat in the kitchen. I still go there.
These “street vendors” probably assist with some of the government crime. Registering voters, filling out ballots (when more “votes” are needed), etc.
I think that’s pretty much the case in most if not all of Commiefornia. I live in one of the more Conservative northern Commiefornia counties and its true here. I’ve worked in several restaurants over the past 10 years and they’ve all had to undergo yearly inspections. I highly doubt that the food carts (not the food trucks) have to undergo inspections. Same with pop-up flower vendors and produce vendors.
Anyone who can flee California should ASAP. Prediction: all kinds of illness.
We would prefer they leave, not us.
Thousands of miles of beaches in Mehico. They don’t need ours.
A former colleague who retired, decided to cater Cajun food locally. She was required to upgrade her kitchen, pass health inspections and of course, get licenses and permits before she could sell food.
But apparently in L.A. someone from a third-world nation with third-world notions of sanitation can cook tamales at home, pack them up in a cooler and sell them outside of Home Depot with no worries at all.
Makes a lot of sense to me. /s
Fair enough. Unfortunately with Newscum and SCOTUS birthright citizenship that’s unlikely to occur anytime soon.
Feeding the invaders
This was why the Civid shutdowns took place. Small businesses were targeted for shutdown. Why? ‘Cause most small businesses are run by folks who understand economics and risk. Those are characteristics of conservatives.
So, the Covid shutdowns were designed to bankrupt all conservatives. Now, illegals can vote. So, they will be favored. A win/win for the commie trash who run this state.
My dad had restaurants all over te country and taught me a lot about food.
when traveling, we’d never stop at a restaurant that had dirty windows.because it was probably dirty inside too. etc etc.
I still follow his rules, which always excluded aanything resembling a “food cart”.
We are on a swift path to third world status.
Which I guess is the point of all this.
In short, L.A. and the surrounding counties have two sets of rules.
we need to move the border. Mexico is perfectly welcome to LA.
I’d hate to lose Big Sur, Monterey, Santa Barbara, if they are still the beautiful places I remember.
There's a show on The Food Network called Restaurant: Impossible. I can only imagine what the people who ate at those restaurants before the makeover think when they see the show.
But but all cultures are equal! Just look at this list of Somalian 5-star restaurants:
My shop is in Pacoima, Illegal ALien Central. Within 2 miles there are over 20 sidewalk restaurants all funded with EBT cards. A lot of them have tables and chairs setup on the sidewalk. There are no restaurants anymore, they all closed as a result a long time ago.
We used to have no food trucks or food street vendors at all here. Now they are everywhere...................
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