Immigration

Latin Grammy Nominated and Sin Papeles: The Story of La Santa Cecilia's Pepe Carlos

La Santa Cecilia's music video for its latest single "El Hielo (ICE)" premieres today, but this writer got a sneak peek two weekends ago! With Chris Newman of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) present in Anaheim for an event in celebration of jornalero Jose Ucelo, he took the occas ... More >>

OC Labor Calls for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (aka Amnesty) at Press Conference in Anaheim

Hundreds of union members and allies rallied in front of Anaheim City Hall today to announce their support for "comprehensive immigration reform," which everyone and their cousin knows as amnesty. The press conference was called by the Orange County Labor Federation and featured leaders from the rel ... More >>

Filipino Sham Marriage, Illegal Alien Scam Operators Reluctantly Saying Bye, Bye to USA

Filipinos Wilfredo Tiongco Ngo and Maria Teresa Lamayo Ngo operated a massive scheme that kept illegal immigrants secretly working in the United States at the pair's elderly health care assistance business in Orange County.By repeatedly changing their company's name, encouraging sham marriages and m ... More >>

Children of Immigrants Have No Rights ... in Mexico

The law aimed at allowing grown children to enter colleges and the U.S. military even though they were brought into this country quite young--and illegally--is famously called the DREAM Act. Perhaps someone should draft the NIGHTMARE Act, as a nightmare is what young U.S. citizens face as they are d ... More >>

WWJD? Who Would Jesus Deport? Evangelical Leaders, Including a Santa Ana Preacher, Weigh In With Political Statement

More than 150 evangelical leaders, including one of our very own right here in Orange County, have signed on to a statement calling for what they say is a righteous solution to immigration reform. The "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform" calls for a bipartisan policy that " ... More >>

[UPDATED with New Not Guilty Plea:] Itzcoatl Ocampo, Serial Killer Suspect, Accused of 6 Fatal Stabbings

​UPDATE, FEB. 21, 11:40 A.M.: To give you the proper visual for this post, picture Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo at right with an al Qaeda beard. That's how he appeared in a Santa Ana courtroom this morning when he pleaded not guilty to the stabbing-murders of a mother, her son and four homeless men sinc ... More >>

Deborah Pauly "Filling Big Hole" DeVore Left, Having Three-Way with Candidates Spitzer and Bucher

​When Republican former assemblyman Chuck DeVore announced Friday he was moving to Texas and not, as previously announced, running against Republican former assemblyman Todd Spitzer for an open Orange County Board of Supervisors seat, the race lost an anti-tax and pro-morality nut. When Mark Buche ... More >>

Deaf Immigrants Apply for Asylum, Claiming Persecution; Barbara Coe Hand-Signs Middle Finger to Them

Coe: Deaf to human decency​The Riverside Press-Enterprise had a fascinating story yesterday about an attempt by more than 60 deaf immigrants from various countries but mostly Mexico to get asylum, claiming persecution in their native countries for their disability. Many had horror stories to tell ... More >>

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Cesar Gomez GUILTY of Brutal Murder of Ashley Nicole Lilly in Upscale Garden Grove Hotel

​UPDATE, SEPT. 22, 3:47 P.M.: 36-year-old El Monte gang banger Cesar Gomez was convicted today of murdering 24-year-old Inglewood prostitute Ashley Nicole Lilly in a swanky Garden Grove hotel in August 2009.A jury found the illegal immigrant who has been deported three times back to Mexico guilty ... More >>

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 >>

[UPDATE:] DREAM Act Passes in the House, Stalls in the Senate

​Update, December 9, 6:11 p.m.: The esteemed Surf City GOP Congressdude, Dana Rohrabacher, said on the House floor that the DREAM Act is unfair to "non-minorities."Oh no he diiiiiiiin't?!?Oh, yes. Yes he did. See the video and a passage from his debate after the jump . . .

Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

[Moxley Confidential] Split decision in Overhill Farms case has chilling free-speech implications, dissenting justice asserts

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Campaign Ads Targeting Illegal ImmigrantsComment by RDEIGHT: If current population trends continue, the U.S. population will reach 1.1 billion in the next century. This is exactly what Ted Kennedy swore wouldn't happen when he rammed his Immigration Act of 1965 through Congress ... Now ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Whitman: Housekeeper Should Be DeportedComment by Patriot: lil' nicky is like all illegal aliens. They lie, cheat, and steal to get into this country. Then they complain when we want them out. allred and lil' nicky brought this up just to help out moonbeam. Now that lil' nicky has been ... More >>

Sam Houston's Dual Citizenship

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

Joe Arapio is Served, California Still Illegaler

​Call it delicious irony. Or "See, I told you so." But the same day the feds sued "America's toughest sheriff," human rights pariah and failed OC sheriff kingmaker Joe Arpaio, a new study came out showing more illegal immigrants reside in California than in any other state. And even when you compa ... More >>

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 >>

Top Five Bands That Should Join the Sound Strike

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyRage Against the Machine at the Hollywood Palladium last Friday​The Sound Strike campaign started by Zack de la Rocha to counter Arizona's soon-to-be in effect SB1070 law reached its sonic zenith Friday night with Rage Against the Machine rocking the Hollywood Palladium. T ... More >>

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 >>

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

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Immigrants in Custody in Two Smuggling AttemptsComment by TUSTINATOR: Maybe SALVADOR HERNANDEZ is an "immigrant" as well LOL

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big heart. But not this big

[UPDATED:] Cypress Councilman Phil Luebben is Next to Spin Wheel of Hate Supporting Arizona SB 1070

UPDATE: For the second time, City Councilman Phil Luebben has failed to get his colleagues to adopt resolutions declaring Cypress a "Rule of Law City" and applauding Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law while damning cities that oppose it (details at end of this post) . . . ​Cypress Cit ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Deborah Pauly Wants Villa Park City Council Colleagues to Back Arizona Immigration Law

UPDATE: The other four members of the Villa Park City Council declined to support Pauly's resolution, explaining their job is to solve local problems, not national ones (details below) . . . ​"I want us to talk about it. If we keep quiet, before you know it, we will be the next ones with problems ... More >>

San Diego French Restaurant Put On ICE

According to the Los Angeles Times, federal immigration officials staged a workplace raid at French Gourmet, a popular French establishment in San Diego's Pacific Beach neighborhood. Unlike the highly publicized workplace raids under George W. Bush, this resulted in the arrest of the owner, Michel M ... More >>

Tam Tran, Garden Grove Native and Tireless DREAM Act Advocate, Killed in Maine Car Accident

Tran and Felix​Tam Ngoc Tran was everything an illegal immigrant isn't supposed to be: non-Mexican. College-educated--scratch that, a college graduate. Fully assimilated. A contributor to this country rather than a leech. American.She was among the country's more prominent undocumented college stu ... More >>

Why Angels Owner Arte Moreno Won't Comment on his Home State's SB1070 Anti-Illegals Law

​The biggest non-surprise of the week: your Anaheim Angels' owner, Arte Moreno, offering no comment to the Los Angeles Times when they asked about his stance on Arizona's SB1070, that piece of Copper State legislation that makes OC's own Proposition 187 seem as anti-Mexican as El Plan de Santa Bar ... More >>

Orange County Faith Leaders Pray for Immigration Reform

OCCCO recently held a prayer vigil for healthcare reform. Now immigration reform is the cause.​Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO) is teaming up with local faith leaders for a prayer vigil calling for just immigration reform Friday evening in the sanctuary at  Immaculate ... More >>

One Single Wish at DREAM Team Graduation

Photo by Christopher VictorioMarch of the graduates.UPDATED WITH LINK TO SLIDESHOW...Last night's bittersweet mock graduation ceremony for students caught in the horrible, perpetual limbo of being educated, bright and ready to work, but denied the chance to because of their illegal immigration statu ... More >>

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 >>

Barbara Coe And Friends Use Adenhart Tragedy to Troll for New Members to CCIR

Was CCIR head once a Chinese singer?As Clockwork Coker inadvertently showed in his post on the death of Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and his friends caused by some dipshit drunk driver, the Know Nothing nation will seize any opportunity to bash Mexicans and exploit any tragedy if it means fu ... More >>

Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

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

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 cr ... More >>

Funniest Quote of the New Millenium

"They came legally, though." --Idiot Iowa woman whose ancestors invaded the Americas on the Mayflower, in response to the issue of illegal immigration.

Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: Shaky ground for the mayor-who-would-be-governor

Preparing for deportation: In the past fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement made almost twice as many arrests (30,396) in its fugitive operations program as it did the previous year, reports the Register. ICE also picked up more than 4,000 illegals in workplace raids - up 11 percent fro ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

All-American edicion

The Martin Chronicles

Onetime ally turns against controversial Anaheim school trustee Harald Martin

NYT profiles The Mexican

'D-port! D-port! D-port!'

Illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, minutemen, and anarchist ninjas all gathered together, and the American flag was more popular than on the Fourth of July. The May Day rally and march in downtown Santa Ana drew a crowd of between 1,000 and 3,000 people, according to a police estimate. Cops on h ... More >>

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 constru ... More >>

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."

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 h ... More >>

Bordering on Nonsense

For those of you sensible enough to avoid watching President Bush's twenty minute attempt to distract the public from his other problems and shore up his sinking poll numbers address on immigration last night, the relentlessly evenhanded Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly (by way of Irvine) has ne ... More >>

Letters

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

!Viva el Trabajador!

The day the day laborers ran the Nazis out of Laguna Canyon

Letters

Repatriate Act

Joe Dunn fights for Mexicans, gets an ass

Counter Culture

Census officials join with OCs street vendors to count Latinos

Viva Bob Dornan

What you can achieve if youre willing to offend everyone