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L.A. Bans Anti-Immigrant Groups

La Opinión, Feb 07, 2006

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles city council approved a resolution last week that prohibits the existence of anti-immigrant militia groups and recognizes the contributions of immigrants during the city's expansion, according to Spanish-language daily La Opinión. Eric Garcetti, council president, who introduced the legislation, said he was proud that Los Angeles is an immigrant city and that his colleagues had agreed. Garcetti recalled Japanese internment camps during World War II, and the country's treatment of Chinese immigrants, and even African American slavery. "We shouldn't repeat that history," he said.