Subject: Illegal Immigration and Deportation

• Fugees in the House!

  If you haven't already seen it, OC Weekly's very own Gustavo Arellano has a great editorial in today's LA Times attacking Cardinal Mahoney. (We'd link the story, but you'd have to pay to read it and besides, we're lazy). The piece argues that Mahoney's recent pledge to advocate on behalf of illegal immigrants is hardly "cause for applause" since Mahoney should have been doing that 15 years ago. That's when Father Luis Olivares established a haven in downtown Los Angeles for "illegal immgrants,"

  March 10, 2006

• Guilty of Irony

  The president of Riverside's Golden State Fence Company, and the company's manager, were sentenced yesterday to 1,040 hours of community service and three years of probation, after pleading guilty to knowingly hiring workers illegally in this country. Both also received six figure fines. A construction business in California knowingly hiring undocumented workers? Happens every day, right? How is that news? you ask. Simple. As the AP notes, Golden State Fence "once helped build a fence to k

  March 29, 2007

• And now a word from Dana Rohrabacher on Mexicans, the Liberal Left, Lucy & Charlie Brown

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5/22/07: A tsunami of illegal aliens is sweeping into our country, crowding our classrooms, closing our hospital emergency rooms, unleashing violent crime, and driving down wages. This is not theory. It is a harsh, threatening reality borne out not by numerous academic studies, but by the life experiences of the American families from California to Georgia and from Iowa to New Jersey. Our middle class is being destro

  May 26, 2007

• Ed Royce Makes a Run for the Border

  The San Diego Union-Tribune, whose editorials typically lean solidly to the right, has come out firmly against mixing illegal immigration with the war on terror--and with "The Wrong Mix," they more specifically chide OC's own Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for chairing an Imperial Beach congressional hearing that did just that. Rep. Royce said his special hearing panel would focus on whether America's porous border makes it more vulnerable to another terrorist attack. That should have been our firs

  July 7, 2006

• Don't Let 'Em Bite

  First it was Killer Bees. Then AFRICANIZED killer bees. Then sharks. Then Fire Ants. Then West Nile-infused mosquitos. Then illegal aliens. Actually, you can insert illegal aliens in there a few more times previously. Then locusts. Then frogs falling from the sky. Then jetliners ramming into buildings. Then illegal aliens again. Then Mel Gibson. And now, they're coming to get you: BEDBUGS! Eeeeeekkkk!!!

  August 8, 2006

• Illegal Fact-Stretching in Costa Mesa (Again)

  Last summer, a white out-of-towner murdered Costa Mesa resident Israel Maciel. The killer's identity, however, wasn't known before migra Mayor Allan Mansoor told the Daily Pilot that the incident "shows we still have work to do, but it takes time to remove the welcome mat. When you have job centers, soup kitchens and a high concentration of downscale rental units, it drives the city down, and I favor a multi-faceted approach to include stronger gang enforcement and overlay-zone revitalization, a

  June 18, 2007

• Harald Martin: Mexican Lover?

  Turns out everybody's favorite Mexican-suing, rape-victim-blaming, Zapatistas-supporting school trustee is actually Anaheim's only defender of poor, hopeless Mexicans--and he's getting hell for it. At least that's how Harald Martin describes himself. In a long, rambling letter sent last Friday to anti-Mexican movement madrina and California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe, Martin--a former trustee for the Anaheim Union High School Distict who was controversially re-appoint

  August 6, 2007

• Illegal Immigration: Follow the Bouncing Logic

  When it comes to examining the root causes of illegal immigration, some Republicans work overtime to reconcile their hatred of "illegals" (cough—Mexicans!—cough-cough!) with the Bible—something that's not always easy to pull off given that the Bible preaches goodwill to those who are less fortunate. Take the Oct. 29 opinion piece that appeared on the Republican Party of Orange County's website. Rosie Avila starts off on a promising note, stating that the issue cannot be resolved until

  November 12, 2007

• Getting Ready to Battle the Illegals

  Tomorrow is May Day, celebrated by socialists across the globe and by illegal immigrants in the United States to march for amnesty (as an Aztlanista, I can tell you the shared dates ain't no coincidence, I tell ustedes what). Locally, pro-amnesty folks will meet at SanTana's Civic Center Plaza at 2 p.m., while the loyal opposition known as the California Coalition for Immigration Reform will protest outside the Mexican Consulate off Broadway and Civic Center Drive at eight in the morn. Of cours

  April 30, 2008

• Will the Real Barbara Coe Please Stand Up?

  I devote a couple of pages of my Orange County: A Personal History (book signing Sept. 18 at the Yost!) to the Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform, the single group most responsible for fanning the anti-Mexican flames in the United States over the past 15 years. One crucial moment I discuss is CCIR head Barbara Coe's self-professed epiphany regarding the illegal-alien menace, as quoted in Daniel Sheehy's 2006 book Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Bat

  September 8, 2008

• Viva Bob Dornan

  June 10, 1999

• Barbara Coe Upset Sarah Palin Doesn't Acknowledge Her

  On Sept. 15, California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe sent off a questionnaire to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "The California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is a nationally recognized nonpartisan grassroots organization representing thousands of patriots nationwide," Coe wrote to Palin. "Our goal is the enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of law-abiding Americans from illegal alien invaders and the preservation of the U.S. as a sov

  October 16, 2008

• Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home

  March 15, 2001

• Fox Hunt

  April 5, 2001

• God Loves Losers

  December 13, 2001

• OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday

  Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm; admission $5 for non-CCIR members). From the keyboard of CCIR head Barbara Coe: The courageous patriot Representative who always stands strong for the rights of loyal, law-abiding Americans of ever

  October 20, 2008

• Goodbye, Jim

  August 24, 2006

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

  February 26, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Cherry-Picking César Chávez

  July 3, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  November 15, 2007

• Grave Error

  December 12, 2002

• A Portrait of the Plaintiff as a Young Victim

  November 20, 2003

• The Martin Chronicles

  August 16, 2007

• Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

  July 12, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 1, 2006

• Gracias, OC!

  May 18, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  April 20, 2006

• Letters

  April 13, 2006

• The Gilchristification of OC

  March 30, 2006

• Letters

  January 26, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  December 29, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 8, 2005

• Letters

  Toots is older than Mick but smokes twice as much herb as Keith Richards.

  December 1, 2005

• Campbell’s Dupe

  November 24, 2005

• Wiley Coyote

  November 10, 2005

• Border Story

  November 10, 2005

• THE RIGHT IS RIGHT

  Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing

  June 2, 2005

• The Anti-Immigrant Movements Trotsky

  February 10, 2005

• The Vegas Line

  February 12, 2004

• Immigrant Bashing

  January 1, 2004

• Illegal Immigrants vs. College Students

  October 9, 2003

• Repatriate Act

  July 31, 2003

• See Tombstone, Nab a Mexican

  March 13, 2003

• Live Like an Illegal Immigrant!

  May 23, 2002

• To Protect and Slur

  April 18, 2002

• Blow Their Butts to Hell!

  February 14, 2002

• Subcomandante Martin

  August 5, 1999

• Lights! Camera! Reaction!

  May 13, 1999

• Barbara Coe Tells Followers to Stay Away from Ethnic Restaurants

  I know a lot of you foodies out there like to concentrate on grub, like to pretend that the food on your table appears deux ex machina with no political back story behind it, and prefer not to wade into the real world. I'm one of those: that's why I review restaurants, as a respite from the insanity of my regular job as an investigative reporter. Sometimes, though, the two worlds collide, and this is one of them.Barbara Coe is the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, an organ

  May 21, 2009

• New Column: Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Week!

  Greetings, racist psychobabble fans!Every Friday, we'll bring you this innovative and occasionally interactive web column featuring the five most racist comments by Register readers. Okay, so maybe there's some racist comments we'll miss, but with so much to choose from, who cares? (Feel free to alert us to any doozies in this column's comments section.) Usually, we'll be pulling these comments from five different Register stories--maybe we'll have fun by asking you to guess which comment was in

  July 24, 2009