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Immigration

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    [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 . . .

  • Columns

    December 9, 2010

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​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 . . .

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

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

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

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Grinding Justice

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

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • 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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    [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 >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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."

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    [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 >>

  • 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

    July 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • Columns

    March 26, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Columns

    February 26, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

    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 >>

  • Columns

    January 29, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 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 cr ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 15, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!(r)

    All-American edicion

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Their Favorite Martin

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

  • Blogs

    August 10, 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 Bri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2007

    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 >>

  • Features

    July 12, 2007

    Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

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

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    On the Borderline

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

  • Columns

    June 14, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!

    'Theyre always little bit more rambunctious'

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2007

    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 >>

  • 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."

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2006

    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 >>

  • Columns

    April 20, 2006

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Brooding over the brood

  • Columns

    April 13, 2006

    Letters

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

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    The Gilchristification of OC

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

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2006

    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 >>

  • Columns

    January 26, 2006

    Letters

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

  • Columns

    December 8, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

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

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Campbell’s Dupe

    Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Blow Their Butts to Hell!

    Radio minister Rich Agozino says illegals procreating wildly in takeover plot

  • News

    December 13, 2001

    God Loves Losers

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

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Viva Bob Dornan

    What you can achieve if youre willing to offend everyone

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