L.A. County repeals 1942 support for Japanese American internment

LOS ANGELES, United States - Actor George Takei testifies at a Los Angeles County board of supervisors meeting on June 6, 2012, before the board voted to revoke its WWII support for the internment of Japanese Americans. Claiming that it was difficult "if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens," in 1942 the board recommended that the U.S. federal government remove the county's 37,000 Japanese Americans, including Takei and his family, to internment camps.

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