Demonstrator Johnny Benitez (L) faces off with peace activist Jared Hughes during an America First rally in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., August 20, 2017. REUTERS/Sandy Huffaker
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) - Anti-immigration demonstrators faced off against a much bigger crowd of counter-protesters in the Southern California town of Laguna Beach on Sunday, as police kept the opposing sides apart.
Around 2,500 people in total showed up for what became a raucous shouting match but did not descend into the kind of violence seen at this month's clashes at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one person was killed.
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