Landlord neglect and a PR-driven false gang narrative blamed immigrant tenants, enabling xenophobic political exploitation and substituting punitive crackdowns for social support.
Bay Area restaurants, chefs are again shut out of the James Beard Awards
"At our restaurant, we tell stories of immigrants, of diaspora, endurance and perseverance. LA is a city built by the toils of immigrant communities, and right now, those same communities are being ripped apart."