Illegal Immigration and Deportation

Why Do Mexicans Rape So Much?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do they always yell, 'Cu-le-ro' at bands they love?

More Than 60 Percent of Undocumented Adults Have Been in U.S. Over 10 Years: Study

​Nearly two-thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the U.S. have lived in this country for at least 10 years and nearly half--4.7 million--are parents of minor children, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study. "Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of ... More >>

Dora Landaverde-Torres, Wife of School Board Member, Faces Deportation

​The wife of a Moreno Valley school board member is currently in lockup in Santa Ana. But Dora Landaverde-Torres is not sitting on a cold bunk due to a DUI crash, a shoplifting charge or swinging her purse at a Santa Ana cop. She's not even in the city jail. The wife of Mike Rios, who wants to run ... More >>

"Illegal" Descriptors of Undocumented Rejected by Journalism Society

​The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) just voted to do something that I thought was already set in stone in American newsrooms (drop use of the term "illegal alien"), but the organization also forbid a term I'd figured was the P.C. alternative ("illegal immigrant").Based on a recommendati ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Hello, Haters!And......adios.That's right, folks; you're reading the very last OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day. When I started this column, it was intended to poke fun at the fact that any story in the Register that mentioned Mexico or featured a Latino or was written by Yvette Cabrera ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Congresswoman Target of Shooting; 6 Dead Editor's Note: This is really a new low for the loonier regulars of the Register comments section. Amidst a national tragedy, these anonymous hacks saw fit to bemoan the fact the shooter wasn't an illegal alien, for example, or to posit that the ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: From Illegal Immigrant to BusinesswomanComment by WEIRDTIME: You've got a lot of guts CINDY CARCAMO for putting this story out. Illegals aren't very much welcome in this neck of the woods and you go on to glorify this criminal behavior. Have no intentions of wasting my time with reading ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population. But they're accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes

Mexican Macroeconomics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

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

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, doesn't work

Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan Faces Possible Student Boycott Over Use of "Illegal Immigrant" Instead of "Undocumented Student"

It has to be tough to edit a college newspaper nowadays. Not only are you, the cream of the coed crop, facing horrible job prospects upon graduation, but you also must manage the tricky PC waters that is the modern-day American university e​xperience.This unenviable position is the one that Isa Gh ... More >>

Barbara Coe Claims DREAM Act Will Lead to Death of ALL Americans

​I think that if someone were to show Barbara Coe a Mexican illegal immigrant who graduated from college and is going on to graduate school--in other words, an illegal that has scholastically accomplished more than she can even comprehend--the head witch of the California Coalition for Immigration ... More >>

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

Tougher border enforcement in California and Texas has spelled disaster for southern Arizona

How Many Anti-Illegals, Anti-Liberal Buzzwords Can Royce Work Into His Anti-Healthcare Rant?

Rantin' Royce!​It's the home game sweeping the Republic: Count how many anti-liberal/anti-illegals/pro-hater buzzwords and references are in the latest email to supporters from Rep. Ed Royce (R-The White Side of Fullerton).The email (Punctuation, capitalizations and boldface intact) follows after ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

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 ... More >>

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 p ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 fort ... More >>

The Martin Chronicles

Onetime ally turns against controversial Anaheim school trustee Harald Martin

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 an ... More >>

Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

Orange County seethes with immigration raids, demonized Mexicans and appeals for amnesty. 2007? No, 1951

!Ask a Mexican!

'Theyre always little bit more rambunctious'

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, threateni ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Is this over-reliance on her family a cultural difference?

Goodbye, Jim

Jim Gilchrists new book highlights the failed promises of the Minuteman Project

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 buildin ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

'The love that dare not speak its name except through the barrel of a gun'

Gracias, OC!

'Gustavo Arellano: youre a race-card-playing punk!'

The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars

Hangin with the haters at Santa Anas Day Without an Immigrant

Letters

'A long and sordid history of trampling over civil liberties'

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 ... More >>

Letters

'Art critics are too afraid to say that certain works are pure crap that need flushing.'

!Ask a Mexican!

The year in Mexican-bashing

Campbell’s Dupe

Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist

Wiley Coyote

The Rev. Wiley Drake has a history of helping illegals, as long as they dont criticize Bush

Border Story

I couldve smuggled in an illegal immigrant but didnt: A tale of regret

THE RIGHT IS RIGHT

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

The Vegas Line

We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

Illegal Immigrants vs. College Students

Who lives the better life?

Grave Error

Tim Garcia is no anti-immigration martyr

To Protect and Slur

Police investigate one of their own: Harald Martin

God Loves Losers

Anti-immigration activist Harald Martin says illegals worse than bin Laden

Welcome to Orange County, Now Go Home

Cops say they want to bail on INS duty

Subcomandante Martin

Anaheim high school prez Harald Martin wants Mexico to paybut he cant add

Lights! Camera! Reaction!

Supes give Springer a run for his money