Comment by nox101
4 hours ago
Is don't know if it's a problem or if it's related but in Los Angeles, the city is covered with illegal food stalls setup on sidewalks. I think that's an issue. For one, it takes customers from the stores they set up in front of.
I'm happy to hear arguments this is unrelated to illegal immagration and is a net positive.
the idea that immigration is always a net positive seems to have been challenged recently
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinto...
How terrible.. Let's enforce draconian ID checks, destroy families, corral people into human warehousing centers and then aggressively throw them back into the hell they escaped from over the border..... because some Los Angeles residents (and residents of other cities) cant stand the site of a food stall on their otherwise "perfectly clean" streets.
If those food stalls weren't offering an attractive service at a good price, they wouldn't be stealing customers from anyone anyhow. The restaurant owners aren't owed an income and customers aren't a product to be "taken away" or given. They make their own choices that others decide to serve in this context.
Among all the arguments against illegal or legal immigrants, this has got to be one of the more pedantic and absurd examples.
Wait, the food stalls are getting customers who would have otherwise gone into the other stores? Sounds like the free market, baby! If you can't compete with food stall tacos or whatever, maybe you're in the wrong line of business.
Nobody is entitled to customers
Sure, but you are entitled to equal application of the law protection from competition blatantly flaunting the law.