Subject: Border Control and Customs

• Fun in Spelling!

  We're about as open borders as you can get, but even we rolled our eyes when a group of students announced a press conference outside SanTana's Valley High School this afternoon at 3:30 to talk about the walk outs of the last week. Done via blast e-mail, the press release is titled "SANTA ANA STUDNETS SPEAK-OUT REGARDING WALKOUTS- (3-30-06)." In-state tuition to the first illegal immigrant who posts which word is misspelled!

  March 31, 2006

• Going, Going, Gone to Court

  The question of which Nguyen won is about to be answered. Or maybe not. The Los Angeles Times reports that OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has finished the recount of the February 6 special election, and determined that Janet Nguyen is the winner. Republican Nguyen's margin of victory over Republican Trung Nguyen is said to be seven votes, which brings the proceedings to a neatly symmetrical end, since the losing Nguyen (T.) was seven votes ahead of the winning Nguyen (J.) at the beginning

  February 27, 2007

• Unfortunate Acronym of the Day

  Earlier today, representatives from the Arizona Interfaith Network, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Kansas City's El Centro and the United Farm Workers set up a teleconference call to argue why comprehensive immigration reform is necessary. They met under the name Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, or CCIR for short. Of course, the famous CCIR 'round these parts is the Mexican-hating California Coalition for Immigration Reform. Given that CCIR head witch Barbara Coe was recently

  May 23, 2007

• Quien es Más Minuteman?

  You'll be hard-pressed to ever find two sides in a lawsuit less sympathetic than the parties who are scheduled to show up in Orange County Superior Court on May 27. On one side will stand Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, who was fired last year from the organization he founded for accusations of fraud, embezzlement and other such financial shenanigans; supporting him will be Tim "I Want to Kill Muslims When I Grow Up" Bueler. Suing him on the above charges are current Minuteman Project b

  April 19, 2008

• Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!

  June 24, 2008

• San Diego Minutemen Get Back Their San Clemente Adopt-a-Highway Sign

  Mere hours after the Weekly's story regarding the tale of two Minuteman Project Adopt-a-Highway signs hit the streets, a federal judge ordered Caltrans to restore the one on Interstate 5 near the San Onofre immigration checkpoint sponsored by the San Diego Minutemen. In a misleading email sent out last night ("misleading" only because the subject line read " My heartfelt thanks go out to you!" and I thought it was about me, but in reality it was a mass e-mail), San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff S

  July 25, 2008

• Jim Gilchrist to Speak at Long Beach State Today--Students, Please Go

  The Southern California progressive community is abuzz with word that Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and his anti-illegals pal, Ted Hayes, will "lecture" at Long Beach State today. "The topic is to inform students and the general public on the Racist Agenda of the La Raza at the national, college, and high school level," says the press release put out by the Conservative Student Union, which doesn't even have a location for what will surely be an afternoon of laughs. This time last yea

  November 19, 2008

• Rohrabacher Miffed That Border Agents Off Bush's Pardon List

  That two names didn't make outgoing President George W. Bush's list of presidential pardons and commutations announced today has Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) steaming mad, although he noted Dubya "still has time to do the right thing."Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who are currently in prison for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler, are no-shows on the Bush list. Freeing the agents has been Rohrabacher's great cause ever since the shooting. And so th

  November 24, 2008

• The Border Patrol Gets Pimped Out On Reality T.V.

  If you didn't think reality television could get any more crass than the grating weekly doses of collagen-injected OC busybodies, guess again. ABC is scheduled to air its new border patrol  reality T.V. show during the same time slot as our desperate little OC housewives beginning in January. The big, bad show, brimming with border-defending men and women "working the front lines" is titled (fittingly, for a recruitment ad) "Homeland Security USA." The show's producers were given "unprecede

  December 5, 2008

• The Curious Case of the Crapping Minuteman

  A couple of weeks ago, I received a fascinating envelope with the claim that a Minuteman Project member sent a racist letter to Wahoo's Fish Tacos founder Wing Lam AND took a shit in a Wahoo's trash can. The envelope carried a letter purportedly written by Minuteman Project member Brian Gilmore, and a Post-It note."I work at Wahoos," read the note. "My boss was going to throw [Gilmore's letter] out. This Brian Gilmore pendejo really took a crap in our trash area and wiped with our aprons. Can yo

  December 10, 2008

• Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

  WEB EXCLUSIVE!

  November 27, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  November 6, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] A Run for the Border Patrol. And Mucho Mas!

  July 17, 2008

• Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's 14

  March 6, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!

  February 22, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Jan. 24-Jan. 30
  

  February 1, 2007

• Touched By an Evil

  August 3, 2006

• Gracias, OC!

  May 18, 2006

• FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPING TRAIL

  April 21, 2005

• TOO TOUGH TO DIE

  April 7, 2005

• The Disorder at the Border

  March 31, 2005

• The Anti-Immigrant Movements Trotsky

  February 10, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 26, 2003

• Is That a Song Bird in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

  A bulbul sings the song of freedom.Sonny Dong was walking through security at Los Angeles International Airport last month when inspectors noticed something odd: bird feathers and droppings on his socks and bird tail feathers under his pants. Upon closer examination it was discovered the 46-year-old Garden Grove resident had 14 live birds wrapped in cloth around his legs, and a subsequent search of his pal Duc Le's Garden Grove home turned up 51 more Asian songbirds.The birds were all quarantine

  May 6, 2009

• Pastor Wiley Drake Has Obama-Death-Prayer Competition

  Pastor Steven Anderson with a future mind ripe for polluting.First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake now has high-profile competition when it comes to praying for President Barack Obama's death. Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Tempe, Arizona's Faithful Word Baptist Church--which, from the looks of it in this video of his "Why I Hate Barack Obama" sermon, appears to have been decorated by the Blind Boys of Alabama--told congregants recently that he also prays for the pr

  September 10, 2009

• Dude, Where's My VW Bus That Was Stolen 35 Years Ago? Oh, There It Is

  Courtesy of U.S. Border and Customs ProtectionFound it!​You never know what will turn up in a container at the Long Beach port. Sure, the vast majority are filled with legal products bound for store shelves all across this great land. But every so often inspectors will find smuggled guns, drugs, humans . . . . . . a Volkswagen Bus that was reported stolen in Washington more than 35 years ago.

  November 6, 2009