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Illegal immigration protestors target arts festival in Laguna Beach


LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. About 100 opponents of illegal immigration staged a protest in Laguna Beach. They were criticizing the city's funding of a day laborer site with money partly generated by its annual Festival of the Arts.

The Laguna Day Worker Center helps laborers, many of them immigrants, find jobs regardless of their status.

Yesterday's protest, which ended without any major incidents or arrests, marked the latest in a string of tense illegal-immigration demonstrations in Southern California over the past several months.

Across the street from the protesters, half a dozen supporters of undocumented immigrants held signs with messages such as "Stop the Hate."