Villaraigosa Tells Where He Stands – Los Angeles Times

“Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa did not pick immigration to top his public agenda. He rarely discussed the issue during last year’s mayoral campaign and had hoped to spend the spring talking about his first budget ”” a controversial package that includes a significant fee hike to pay for more police.

But on March 25, a crowd estimated by police at half a million people massed outside Villaraigosa’s office at City Hall to register their opposition to a bill in Congress that would have imposed new criminal penalties on immigrants who entered the country illegally. Since then, smaller protests and a series of student walkouts have kept the issue near the top of Los Angeles’ agenda and have spread across the nation as well.”

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