Street Vendors
The article in Commentary (“Lose a Criminal and Gain a Taxpayer,” Dec. 29) advocating the legalization of street vending ignores the moves Mexico is making to do away with it or at least curtail it. Tijuana has stopped allowing vendors, beggars and windshield washers to bother people at the border crossings.
What can Los Angeles gain by legalizing the cancerous blight of street vending? Why allow immigrants, trying to escape problems in the countries they leave, to bring more squalor to Los Angeles? Los Angeles is fast taking on a Third World appearance. Why exacerbate the decline?
WILLIAM BLANCHARD, Playas de Tijuana, B.C.
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