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Saturday, July 14, 2007

latimes.com - Mexican-food trucks are outlawed in a parish. Is it racism wrapped in a health issue?

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Hold the tacos, New Orleans says
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Mexican-food trucks are outlawed in a parish. Is it racism wrapped in a health issue?

By Miguel Bustillo
Times Staff Writer

July 14 2007

NEW ORLEANS ... In the parking lot of a drive-thru daiquiri bar that sells frozen White Russians in plastic to-go cups, Fidel Sanchez is running an illegal enterprise that's too unwholesome to be tolerated, according to politicians here in suburban Jefferson Parish.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tacotrucks14jul14,0,4950085.story?coll=la-home-center

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