Calif. apologizes for past persecution of Chinese

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Calif. apologizes for past persecution of Chinese

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Legislature didn't let a weeks-long budget debate prevent it from unanimously apologizing for the state's past persecution of the Chinese immigrants who built the state's railroads, gold mines and agriculture industry.

The Senate earlier this month approved the resolution expressing regret for 19th Century and early 20th Century laws that "resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California." The Assembly backed the measure in late June, and California's secretary of state put it on the state's official record Friday.

The resolution lists the specific laws aimed at stemming immigration from China and intimidating immigrants already in the country.

Assemblyman Paul Fong of Mountain View, the grandson of a Chinese immigrant, says he now will try to persuade Congress to pass a similar resolution.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_re_us/us_california_chinese_apology_1




In this file photo from the 1920s, a group of Chinese and Japanese women and children wait to be processed as they are held in a wire mesh enclosure at internment barracks in Angel Island, Calif. Chinese immigrants were essential to the founding of California. They built the transcontinental railroad over the Sierra Nevada, worked mines during the Gold Rush, and helped spread agriculture and build the network of levees in the Central Valley. They also suffered decades of discrimination.
(AP Photo)

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