‘It’s just one day’

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Johnny Yu, a 54-year old Korean businessman, leaned on a newspaper box as he watched the marchers go by on Olympic. The mostly Latino marchers passed by scores of Korean businesses on their way to MacArthur Park.

‘It’s ok. It’s just one day,’ he said. ‘They have a right to express their opinion and I respect that.’

Yu, who is from Korea but now hold US citizenship, runs an international trading company. He said he doesn’t hire illegals but ntoed that his subcontractors do. Immigration, he said, ‘is a very complicated issue. One sides makes sense, then the other side makes sense.’

-Jill Leovy