Subject: Immigration

• 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

• Tan Nguyen's Only Friends...

  ...Yep: the anti-immigrant crowd. At today's raid/media circus at Republican congressional candidate/alleged anti-Latino letter sender Tan Nguyen's office, a contingent of fogies from the California Coalition for Immigration Reform--apparently forgiving Nguyen for faking their letterhead and sending a letter off to 14,000 voters--told anyone who would listen that Nguyen was right: immigrants shouldn't vote. Now another organization, the U.S. Immigration Reform PAC, has issued this statement. In

  October 20, 2006

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Harald Martin Uses District Resources To Spin His Story

  Anaheim Union High School District trustees claim that they reappointed former board member Harald Martin because he was the most qualified candidate for the job. That's bull--nothing more than political payback, as I noted in the above link. But I forgot to mention something else: AUHSD trustee Brian O'Neal was also appointed while Martin served on the board the first time around. This puts the number of current AUHSD trustees appointed by Martin at two; coupled with longtime supporter (and Mis

  August 10, 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

• 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!] Special April Fools' Day Edition

  March 26, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

  February 26, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Law & Border Hypocrisy, Part 982,776

  January 29, 2009

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

  July 3, 2008

• Their Favorite Martin

  Chased from the Anaheim school board, Harald Martin feels the love at a meeting of the CCIR

  October 4, 2007

• Grave Error

  December 12, 2002

• A Portrait of the Plaintiff as a Young Victim

  November 20, 2003

• Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

  July 12, 2007

• On the Borderline

  Its all anti-illegal talk at the Tom Tancredo rally at the Nixon library

  June 21, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

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

  April 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

• 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

• Way Out There With Them!

  December 12, 2002

• 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

• 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