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ICE Raids Are Driving Customers Away From L.A. Restaurants, But We Can Still Save Them

How is this one of the toughest years for food businesses in a generation at the exact same time Latino culture is having its biggest, loudest, most mainstream moment in American history? Instead, restaurants, many of which are Mexican—the heart of that culture, the vanguard—are barely hanging on. 

December 1, 2025