Cities Are Quietly Waging War on Marginalized Food Truck and Street Vendors

Married business partners Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien immigrated from Haiti and settled in Parksley, Virginia, in 2005. They followed the law when they opened a brick-and-mortar store and expanded with the town’s first food truck in June 2023. Local officials should have celebrated the couple’s entrepreneurial spirit. Instead, they punished it: A Town Council member came to the restaurant…

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