Street Vendors

After reading “Illegal Street Vendors Targeted in Boyle Heights” (Nov. 13), I believe the “enemy” is not the vendor “wearing a red apron, armed with kitchen knives, tortillas and a slab of beef on a spit”; the enemy is the city government that doesn’t uphold local, state and federal laws. The “battle” is not a “fight against the guerrilla street vendors,” the war is battling the city of Los Angeles to enforce its own laws in Boyle Heights.

I am third-generation born and raised in Boyle Heights, and I continue to live and work in the community. Maybe a solution is to have a vending district like Farmers Market, La Paloma El Mercado near USC, or the vending district near MacArthur Park. Would illegal street vending be an issue in Beverly Hills? Westwood? Studio City? Encino?

NADINE M. DIAZ

Los Angeles