Time was anytime Jesse Herrera stepped inside any open-air swap meet, he saw opportunity.

At 25, he bought his first churro cart and set it up at Five Points in Whittier, soon adding a second cart to that venture and quickly branching out to open stalls at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet.

“I didn’t finish high school, but I learned fast,” said Herrera, 57, of La Mirada. “If what you’re selling is clean and presentable, it sells itself. And I take pride in what I do.”

But after about 100 ICE agents marched through the Santa Fe Springs open-air marketplace on June 14, Herrera’s businesses at the swap meet, as well about 300 other small businesses owned mostly by immigrant entrepreneurs, are struggling .

An immigration enforcement raid at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet in June led to a

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