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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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Give me two more years. I’m leaving after my family has lived here for 140 years.
Hey you clearly have a plan. +++++
Also sucks you have to leave 140 years of family history due to how they’ve messed up California so horridly. 😔
5000 years of “the rule of man” is why the Founding Fathers spit in the eye of EVERY government on Earth in 1776 and specified that the USA would be ruled by law, not by man!
And that NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW!
“Rules for thee and not for me” will not stand!
REVOLT, YE CITIZENS OF BLUE STATES AND CITIES! THROW THE BUMS OUT! TAKE BACK YOUR CITIES AND STATES!
At some point in the VERY NEAR future, the LIEberals will get their comeuppance!
It will not be pretty!
From the 50’s to the 80’s,America grew up in California.
Jack Webb,America turns its lonely eyes to you.
Yikes. 140 years is a long time in one place. My dad had a serious case of upward mobility. He was born in some farmhouse at a crossroad in Missouri and his mother starved to death because granddad didn’t make any money.
My dad left as a very young teen, never finished high school. Had seriously awful little jobs, finally got one at a tiny restaurant in Kansas City. I actually saw it brefly on a Ken burns show., He rose through the ranks,became president and I grew up in what became he 7th wealthy suburb in the US
smart industrious and very loving father. I miss him every day.
wish textbook ptubishers would publish personal stories like his for Econ classes that started in about 6th grade. would give a lot of poverty stricken kids a way out.
I was in the pub biz, now I’m salivating. which company would hire me? I just turned 90, still look and feel great 35-year-old guy made a very interesting pass at me last week. LMAO,
they need to label them:
Portable Ptomaine. or just PP restaurants..
White guys get both barrels. Every time, all the time.
Been like this for the past 70 years pretty much everwhere.
When I asked him for his name and badge number so that I could cite him as the city authority as to why my wife no longer paid for a Anaheim business license he got testy and told me running a business without a city license would be illegal i told him not according to him he hung up on me.
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