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Who Runs Bodegas?

Despite their Hispanic origins, by the late 2010s approximately half of all bodegas were operated by Yemeni American immigrants. Yemeni business owners led a campaign of bodega closures in February 2017 in protest of the Trump travel ban. Who are bodega owners? Today in the United States, the word “bodega” refers to New York’s owner-operated …

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