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Citizenship and Naturalization

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Feds Offer Immigrants Tips in Garden Grove Today

    ​U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in partnership with St. Anselm Community Center in Garden Grove, hosts an information session today helping immigrants better understand the naturalization process.Topics covered include the content of the naturalization test, free educational re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    IDEA Act, The DREAM Act's Recently-Introduced Cousin, Would Boost Number of Green Cards

    Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. ​Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Ajit, Nisha and Runjhun Bhargava, Yorba Linda Family, Busted for Allegedly Arranging Sham Marriages

    ​A Yorba Linda family was scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Santa Ana Wednesday on charges of arranging sham marriages so more than 20 foreigners could stay in the country legally.Ajit Bhargava, his 56-year-old wife Nisha Bhargava and their daughter Runjhun Bhargava, 30, are facing cha ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 9, 2010

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​A Yorba Linda family was scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Santa Ana Wednesday on charges of arranging sham marriages so more than 20 foreigners could stay in the country legally.Ajit Bhargava, his 56-year-old wife Nisha Bhargava and their daughter Runjhun Bhargava, 30, are facing cha ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

    Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    From Bogus Birther Cases to Bogus Immigration Trend for Orly Taitz Crony

    ​Media Matters, the nonprofit, Web-based, progressive research and information center "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," discovered that Slate.com used a dubious source for an article that asked, "Are a small number o ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 28, 2010

    Sam Houston's Dual Citizenship

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, when it comes to conspicuous consumption, the tooth hurts

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Gerardo Medina Hernandez Gets 14 Years for State Agency's Largest Heroin Bust

    ​Drug dealer Gerardo Medina Hernandez, 26, of Anaheim, has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison for stashing more than 90 pounds of black tar heroin in false compartments of a car in an Anaheim garage last year. The punishment was handed down Wednesday after Hernandez pleaded guilty to on ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2010

    Ronnie's Kids

    Today, 'amnesty' is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?

    It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Woman Barred From Flying Out of Long Beach Among Those Suing For Being on "No-Fly List"

    ACLUHalime Sat​A woman who was barred from flying out of the Long Beach Airport is among 10 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the American Civil Liberties Union is representing in its constitutional challenge of the government's "no-fly list."Halime Sat joins a disabled veteran of the U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Lawsuit Settlement Breaks Santa Ana's Citizenship-Application Logjam

    ​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS AFTER THE JUMP. . . Citizenship applications that have been backlogged in Santa Ana for years must be processed in the next six months under a settlement announced today. The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas. 

  • Columns

    September 25, 2008

    [¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'What Is an Anchor Baby?'

    ​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS AFTER THE JUMP. . . Citizenship applications that have been backlogged in Santa Ana for years must be processed in the next six months under a settlement announced today. The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas. 

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    New test of American-ness

    The pool of 100 questions unveiled today to be used on naturalization tests starting in October 2008 doesn't look all that different from the 96 questions they're replacing. At least not $6.5 million different, the reported sum spent on the revamp. Some hard questions were simplified – applicant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2006

    Why Is La Opinion Changing the Tan Nguyen Letter?

    La Opinión is the dean of America's Spanish-language dailies, dating back to the 1930s. Its owners, the Lozano family, are tireless advocates of Latinos, and the paper's Pilar Marrero is one of Southern California's best political reporters, damn the language. But their coverage of the Tan N ... More >>

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