AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Los Angeles suspends health enforcement for unlicensed street vendors while restaurants face fines and closures
The Los Angeles County Health Department has stopped enforcing food-safety rules against unpermitted street vendors, but licensed restaurants in the same neighborhoods still face inspections, citations, and shutdowns. The county's stated reason: "safety concerns for our staff arising out of federal immigration enforcement actions." The result is a two-tiered system in which legal operators absorb […] The post Los Angeles suspends health enforcement for unlicensed street vendors while restaurants face fines and closures appeared first on American Almanac .
The Los Angeles County Health Department has stopped enforcing food-safety rules against unpermitted street vendors, but licensed restaurants in the same neighborhoods still face inspections, citations, and shutdowns. The county's stated reason: "safety concerns for our staff arising out of federal immigration enforcement actions." The result is a two-tiered system in which legal operators absorb every cost of compliance while unlicensed competitors sell food feet away, unregulated and untouched. And the people left holding the bag are the small-business owners, legal immigrants, and taxpayers who followed every rule the government wrote. A Breitbart News investigation that included interviews with roughly a dozen vendors laid out the…Open