Los Angeles street vendor Maria Luz said she’s making about half as much money selling pupusas as she did before federal immigration raids escalated earlier this year. At a downtown rally hosted by the LA Tenants Union last week to put pressure on county supervisors to pass an eviction moratorium, the vendor said she’s struggling to pay her rent of around $1,200, but is also afraid of going to work.
“I’m worried that if I go in the street, I’m risking that immigration will grab me,” Maria Luz, who requested her first and middle name be used due to safety concerns, said in Spanish.
If there were an eviction moratorium, she said, “ we can work in peace.”…