Over the last two weeks, as videos of ICE agents tackling people at bus stops or handcuffing fruit vendors on street corners spread across the internet, the food landscape in Los Angeles has been terrorized by fear. Families are too frightened to leave their house for groceries. Taqueros are scared to go to work. Restaurant and bakery owners are prepping employees on what to do if ICE shows up at their workplace.
Los Angeles has always been a city of immigrants. We wear it like a badge of honor. Here on Good Food, we celebrate our diversity through the lens of food, and the people who grow and prepare that food.
We taped this segment five days before it was set to air, and while a lot can change in a few days, one thing won’t. Our LA food community is suffering. In order to understand how immigration raids are impacting local businesses, we turn to Memo Torres of LA TACO.…