Police and health inspectors to target food peddlers and paleteros
By H. Nelson Goodson
July 6, 2010
Milwaukee - The Milwaukee Health Department is cracking down on food, cheese and ice cream peddlers without licenses. The health inspector shut down 8 vendors for health violations, unclean carts, improper temperature, preparation kitchens to clean up carts not certified, and other violations. Most of the corn, and food vendors working outside at both El Rey Grocery Stores on S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive were shut down on Tuesday and were no longer selling food at Chavez Drive.
Next week, local health inspectors will be accompanied by police officers to track down unlicensed peddlers. Police officers will also patrol the area and checking street peddlers for city licenses.
The health department crackdown is geared to provide healthty food for the area residents. But vendors admit, city police are actually targeting illegal immigrants selling food in carts and are trying to locate alleged pedeophiles selling ice cream, which attracts young children for consumption.
Mexican vendors are now questioning, if this is an intended police department immigration enforcement partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
Hispanic ice cream companies that sell Mexican traditional popsicles in the predominately South side Latino district do have a license for the carts to sell them. Now, city officials want the people pushing the ice cream carts to be registered and licensed to sell.
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By H. Nelson Goodson
July 6, 2010
Milwaukee - The Milwaukee Health Department is cracking down on food, cheese and ice cream peddlers without licenses. The health inspector shut down 8 vendors for health violations, unclean carts, improper temperature, preparation kitchens to clean up carts not certified, and other violations. Most of the corn, and food vendors working outside at both El Rey Grocery Stores on S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive were shut down on Tuesday and were no longer selling food at Chavez Drive.
Next week, local health inspectors will be accompanied by police officers to track down unlicensed peddlers. Police officers will also patrol the area and checking street peddlers for city licenses.
The health department crackdown is geared to provide healthty food for the area residents. But vendors admit, city police are actually targeting illegal immigrants selling food in carts and are trying to locate alleged pedeophiles selling ice cream, which attracts young children for consumption.
Mexican vendors are now questioning, if this is an intended police department immigration enforcement partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
Hispanic ice cream companies that sell Mexican traditional popsicles in the predominately South side Latino district do have a license for the carts to sell them. Now, city officials want the people pushing the ice cream carts to be registered and licensed to sell.
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