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Immigration Policy

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    American Civil Liberties Union Caravan Blasting Immigration Laws Coming to Santa Ana

    The American Civil Liberties Union caravan stopping in Santa Ana at high noon Monday to draw attention to the damage done by immigration laws like Arizona's is sure to include a hippie van with stickers all over it. Only some messages will be in Spanglish, and Jerry Garcia's Dead head will be replac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Jim Gilchrist Asked Deborah Pauly During Villa Park Council Meeting to Not Speak to CCIR; What did Pauly Do?

    ​Just got a note from Jim Gilchrist, the longtime anti-illegals guy and persistent thorn in the side of true Know Nothings. Seems that he attended the Villa Park City Council meeting this Tuesday to ask Drunken Deborah Pauly to not address the California Coalition for Immigration Reform meeting th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Dana Point Harbor Boat Captain Admits to Smuggling Aliens From Mexico

    ​A 28-year-old Orange County citizen has pleaded guilty for attempting to smuggle six foreign nationals into the U.S. on a boat to Dana Point earlier this year.Brian Bokkes admits that he was the "captain" of a 1987 Four Winns Pleasure Craft boat that brought the fee-paying, undocumented aliens fr ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2011

    WINNER'S CIRCLE: Vanessa Castillo and Yenni Diaz

    [BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] Organizers With the Orange County Dream Team

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Strange Bedfellows: The Two Very Different Organizations That Were At Saturday's Kelly Thomas Protest

    ​Unfortunate events breed the most unlikely of unions. I mean, just look to Fullerton. When members of two staggeringly dissimilar groups convened Saturday to protest the death of a mentally ill transient, they coexisted with ease. For arguably the first and last time ever, members of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    [UPDATED with Manslaughter Count:] Leovardo Vera Bustos, OC Homicide No. 33: Dies From Single Punch

    Medina-Perez​UPDATE, AUG. 5, 10:19 A.M.: As expected, amended charges have been filed against 24-year-old Oscar Raul Medina-Perez in the death of Leovardo Vera Bustos, who died from brain injuries two weeks after taking a single punch in front of La Barca Night Club in Stanton on July 5.However, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    DREAM Act Activists Release 'How To Stop Deportation' Guide

    Jonathan Ho/OC Weekly​With the fizzling of the DREAM Act last year and the belief that President Obama is doing little to help their plight, activist groups took matters into their own hands this week, boldly publishing a guide for youth on how not to get deported.Compiled by the Asian Law Caucus, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    [UPDATED with ICE Suspending Deportation:] Isaura Garcia, Battered Woman Facing Deportation, Embodies Problems with ICE Program

    ​UPDATE, MAY 13, 5:26 P.M.: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has informed the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) that it is dropping deportation proceedings against Isaura Garcia. Meanwhile, Joseph Huprich, the woman's pro bono attorney, says Ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Resistant Culture Headlines Benefit Show for OC Dream Team

    Lalo AlcarazImagine they are mohawks​ The DREAM Act is back in the news and a show this Friday in Fullerton featuring Resistant Culture will benefit the local efforts of the Orange County Dream Team. The federal legislation providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth who at ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Barbara Coe Calls U.S. Federal Court Judge Vaughn Walker a 'Homo'

    ​California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe sends so many damn e-mails to her minions that some inevitably fall behind the radiator--like the one I just found that's dated Aug. 6, 2010. The occasion was the repealing of the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 by U.S. District C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    God Bless Anaheim's Unitarian-Universalist Church and its Arrested, Aztlanista Minister

    The object of Sanchez's protest​Anybody involved in progressive politics over the years knows that Anaheim's Unitarian-Universalist Church has been there every step of the way, whether hosting fundraisers to get wrongfully imprisoned Black Panther members out of jail to helping Anaheim residents d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Court: U.S. Can Deport Ex-South Vietnam Soldier and Family

    U.S. bombs still falling on friendly South Vietnamese​The Vietnam War, which ended 35 years ago, claimed four more casualties today.Sadly, the victims are a former South Vietnam army sergeant, who was captured and tortured by communist soldiers during the war, and three members of his family.But t ... 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?

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Phil Luebben Shows Coyote-Like Tenaciousness in Pitching Cypress Immigrant Proposals Again

    ​The first time Phil Luebben pitched his resolutions last month declaring Cypress a "Rule of Law" city and applauding/damning Arizona/Arizona critics, his City Council colleagues voted them down. The second time Luebben pitched his resolutions last month, his motions died for lack of a second.But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

    ​ Headline: Divided City or Divided Leaders?Comment by LWCOOL: Our immigration LAWS MUST BE enforced NOW. Mexalifornia is here BIG TIME.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Proudly Anti-Illegals ... in San Juan Capistrano?

    ​SJC Americans, a San Juan Capistrano activist group opposed to illegal immigration, is rallying Saturday to rah-rah Arizona's controversial new immigration law.

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    OC Democrat Asks Republicans To Drop 'No New Tax' Pledge

    Photo by Christopher VictorioDemocratic Assembly candidate Melissa Fox has a taxing idea.​According to Melissa Fox, a Democratic Party candidate for Orange County's 70th Assembly District, the problem with California government isn't high taxes, a bloated bureaucracy or the massive $20 billion bud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Jose Antonio Franco, Mentally Retarded Immigrant Held for 5 Years, is Released

    ​Five days after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mentally retarded immigrant who has been locked up for years after being judged mentally incompetent to understand the proceedings against him, federal officials announced the release of man from custody in Santa Ana.

  • Columns

    April 1, 2010

    ¿Ask a Minuteman?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] In honor of April Fools' Day, Jim Gilchrist puts on the sombrero and bandoliers this week

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    The OC Register Needs to Stop Respecting CCIR

    ​The Orange County Register did another immigration story over the weekend, this one interviewing Know Nothings and saints on opposite sides of the issue. I understand that reporter Cindy Carmaco has to adhere to trying to antagonize the Know Nothings as little as possible lest she receive dozens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Anti-Immigrant Racist Group Will Protest at HB Pier This Saturday

     Last Saturday a bunch of anti-immigration activists from a group called Freedom14.org gathered at the Huntington Beach pier to, in the group's own words, "inspire White people to take up its cause." They'd appeared there a few times in the past few months without incident, but this time were m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    McKinney Follows UC Irvine Speech With Israeli Detention [UPDATED, THE SEQUEL]

    UPDATE: MCKINNEY IS ON HER WAY HOME, REPORTS ATLANTA-JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ...Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) is shown speaking at UC Irvine May 13 as part of the Muslim Student Union's controversial, three-week "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" teach-in. Here she makes the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Social Justice Summit

    Cal State Fullerton

  • Columns

    March 26, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special April Fools' Day Edition

    Cal State Fullerton

  • Columns

    November 6, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Cal State Fullerton

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    Viva La Mujer

    Portrait of Ten Women

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    May Day rally not so big this year

    Santa Ana police spokesman Jose Gonzales says a multi-police agency force of about 185 officers, some just on standby, were on duty to keep the peace as an expected 6,000 people were to march for immigrant rights downtown. But when the event actually went down, there were nearly as many cops and m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2008

    Ask a Mexican Wins Same Award As Brad Pitt!

    Buried deep in the pages of something called the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer was an Associated Press dispatch revealing that your favorite wab is amongst the winners of this year's Civies, an award given out by the Americans for More Civility, a group of exactly two people. In announcing my honor, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    La Raza: Know Your Know Nothings

    We appreciate WeCanStoptheHate.org, a website run by perennial conservative cucuy the National Council of La Raza that documents the going-ons of various anti-immigrant pendejos. We don't agree with their efforts to boot said pendejos off the airwaves, and do they really want to eliminate one of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007

    Because Even Bigots Need to Rest...

    ...You should join them this Saturday in Anaheim. The California Coalition for Immigration Reform--authors of the infamous Proposition 187 and architects of the modern Know Nothing movement--will hold a potluck for all members and interested individuals in lieu of their usual monthly Nuremburg ralli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2007

    Saturday's Headlines & Surprises

    Saddle Sores: Supervisor John Moorlach hasn't been in office long but he could be the most revolutionary county politician since . . . well . . . we haven't had any revolutionary politicians on the board of supervisors. On Friday, Moorlach announced plans to cut pension benefits retroactively for c ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 12, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Special amnesty edicion

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Whats Illegal?

    Video of elementary schoolkids chanting on May Day becomes YouTube hit as immigration-debate propaganda

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    Fight Club

    How I learned self-defense from an anti-immigrant group and lived to write about it

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2006

    Times chief part of concentration camps for immigrants policy

    Nikki Finke, who's all over the changing of the top guard at the LA Times, has a follow-up on a profile on their new publisher David Hiller soft-peddling his past, which included him being part of a controversial Reagan Administration U.S. immigration policy calling for "concentration camps."

  • Columns

    December 8, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Nikki Finke, who's all over the changing of the top guard at the LA Times, has a follow-up on a profile on their new publisher David Hiller soft-peddling his past, which included him being part of a controversial Reagan Administration U.S. immigration policy calling for "concentration camps."

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Campbell’s Dupe

    Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist

  • Features

    November 10, 2005

    Border Story

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

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Thanks for Visiting Mexico!

    Alleged murderer who made a run for the border is finally back home and behind bars

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    The Vegas Line

    We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

  • Columns

    February 5, 2004

    Letters

    We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

  • Columns

    December 19, 2002

    Letters

    We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    To Protect and Slur

    Police investigate one of their own: Harald Martin

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Bush Victory Evidence of God's Existence

    HB Congressman Rohrabacher also reveals that Gorbachev is evil

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