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While walking around Westwood Village, many UCLA students will pass a couple street vendors selling fruit. Little do students realize that these vendors could face deportation if charged with a misdemeanor for street vending.

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Emily Merz: Westwood needs to protect the rights of the Village’s street vendors

By Emily Merz

Feb. 20, 2017 9:45 p.m.