Immigration

Jessica Karp, UCI Adjunct Professor, Seeks to Expose ICE's "Secret" Meetings with Gov. Brown

The American public must be let in on what's going on behind closed doors regarding the federal government's attempts to preserve the full force of its controversial Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, a UC Irvine law professor argues."There's a public right to know about issues surr ... More >>

Do Mexicans Cause the Closures of Hospitals?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And how many cases of leprosy come from Mexico per year?

Why Do Mexicans Rape So Much?

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

Immigration Makes Us Safer, Richer and Better Able to Breathe: UCI Study

Well here's a timely UC Irvine study in light of today's Weekly cover package: The Southern California Regional Progress Report to be released next week shows the large influx of Asian and Latino immigrants into Southern California in the past 50 years has led to less crime, lower joblessness and ... More >>

Barbara Coe Ridicules Suicide of Undocumented High School Student Despondent Over His Legal Status

​Barbara Coe is, if nothing else, at least true to the false friend of her name: barbaric. We have written many blog posts over the years tracking her vicious words, whether wishing death on President Barack Obama, ridiculing gays and Mexis (and gay Mexis!) and many, many more.Yet the head witch o ... 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 >>

Feds Offer Immigrants Tips in Garden Grove Today

​U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in partnership with St. Anselm Community Center in Garden Grove, hosts an information session today helping immigrants better understand the naturalization process.Topics covered include the content of the naturalization test, free educational re ... More >>

Sound Strike Supporters Outernational Reach Kickstarter Goal, Promise New Music

​ It has been more than one year since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed controversial anti-immigrant legislation SB1070 into law provoking a swift activist response that stretched all the way to the music community in the form of the Sound Strike boycott. Since that time, and in the wake of cert ... More >>

California DREAM Act Passes State Assembly

​It's a little confusing, but no less a victory for illegal immigrant college students. While the national DREAM Act, an immigration bill aimed at providing a path to citizenship for young people, died in the U.S. Senate--and possibly forever--last year, the California DREAM Act is very much alive ... 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: 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 >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Regina Husman and Eveline Rahardja, Daughter and Mother Held by ICE in Santa Ana, Spark Petition Drive

​Thousands of people around the world have signed petitions calling for the release of a Cal State Fullerton student and her mother, who have been shuffled around detention facilities and were sitting in a Santa Ana Jail cell at last report. Biology major Regina Husman, who is vice president of th ... More >>

Lalo Alcaraz and Jim Gilchrist on the Arellano-Tancredo Debate

Courtesy Lalo Alcaraz​Much as it pains Gustavo that we keep blogging about this, we've got one more round of embarrassment for him about his debate yesterday evening in Denver with former Congressman Tom Tancredo. (Follow that link for the video.) We asked some local luminaries to tune into the de ... More >>

ACLU Accuses Feds of Retaliatory Deportation of Whistleblower Who Sued Fullerton Company

​The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is "deeply concerned" over federal immigration agents detaining and initiating deportation proceedings against an immigrant worker who filed a federal class action lawsuit against a Fullerton-based firm in August for labor and civil rights violations. ... More >>

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 >>

Pinalcchio

Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County, Arizona, deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Costa Mesa Mayor Unveils Anti-Immigration PlanComment by LIBERALSSUCK: If your going to tell a contributing business in your "fair" city that they cant stand in public then you should also come down to El Toro and Jeronimo and visit the liquor store for a quick snack and maybe while you ... More >>

Jose Antonio Franco, Freed Mentally Retarded Immigrant, Part of ACLU Lawsuit Against Feds

​As we told you here, five days after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in March against the federal government for locking up Jose Antonio Franco in a Santa Ana detention facility, officials released the mentally retarded immigrant who had been living in Costa Mesa ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Rage Against the Machine, Conor Oberst, Perform Benefit at Hollywood Palladium To Combat SB 1070 On July 23

Lilledeshan Bose​UPDATE: The public onsale is Monday, July 19 at 10 a.m. at LiveNation.com On July 23, Rage Against the Machine will be performing in LA for the first time in 10 years to support organizations combating SB 1070, Arizona's immigration law. The Sound Strike, Zack de la Rocha's or ... More >>

ACLU Issues Arizona Travel Advisory

​The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, whose coverage area includes Orange County, and the ACLUs of Northern California, San Diego and Imperial Counties and 26 other affiliates, issued an Arizona travel alert today.Arizona's response?"Meh."

[UPDATED:] City of Orange to Spin Wheel of Hate, Consider Supporting Arizona and "Rule of Law" Status

​UPDATE: The Orange City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday night to declare itself a "rue the law," I mean, "rule of law" city, and to support Arizona SB 1070 and to shit on cities that are opposed to it. So there! It's getting so that it will be news if an Orange County city does vote to support Arizona' ... More >>

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.

Will "Rule of Law" City Costa Mesa Soon Border "Sanctuary City" Santa Ana?

Facebook.com/Make-city-of-Santa-Ana-a-sanctuary-city​Pretty soon, you may be able to stand on the Santa Ana-Costa Mesa border and place one foot in a so-called "sanctuary city" and the other in a so-called "rule of law city."A new Facebook group has formed in support of making Santa Ana a sanctuar ... More >>

Special Arizona Buycott Edition

[¡Ask a Mexican!] ¡A la chingada with Arizona's SB 1070!

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 ale ... More >>

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

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

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

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

Their Favorite Martin

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

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 Bri ... More >>

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

On the Borderline

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

!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!

Brooding over the brood

Letters

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

The Gilchristification of OC

Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed

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.'

Diary of a Mad County

Campbell’s Dupe

Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist

Illegal Immigrants vs. College Students

Who lives the better life?

Way Out There With Them!

Columnist Michelle Malkin finds home amongst local immigrant-bashers

Blow Their Butts to Hell!

Radio minister Rich Agozino says illegals procreating wildly in takeover plot

God Loves Losers

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