Subject: Mexican Politics

• 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 hearing that did just that. Rep. Royce said his special hearing panel would focus on whether America's porous border makes it more vulnerable to another terrorist attack. That should have been our firs

  July 7, 2006

• The Truth About Glenn Spencer

  *Updated, with grammatical erros bolded The last time I saw Glenn Spencer (founder of the frothingly anti-immigrant American Patrol), the portly man was sporting a huge smile as a race riot erupted around him. The occasion was a Dec. 8, 2001 rally in front of Anaheim City Hall, where Spencer and his amigos were decrying the Anaheim Police Department’s policy to accept Mexican-government-issued identification cards as proper ID for illegal immigrants. Anarchists counter-protested Spencer's i

  September 3, 2007

• Funniest Register Poll of the Year...

  ...has to be the one they ran last week asking readers what "is the most effective way to stop illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border?" Reporter Amy Taxin sure knows her audience--of the options available, none included "open the borders ala the European Union," "reform the current immigration system to encourage more legal migration" or "turn over the southwest United States already." About the closest opinion to such immigrant-friendly options was "there is no effective way to sto

  December 26, 2007

• Fox Hunt

  April 5, 2001

• Proposition 2 Opponents Use Pete Wilson Card for Their Tricks

  Amazingly, both parties have ignored Mexicans in this election. So leave it to the animal-abusing geniuses behind the No on Proposition 2 campaign (y'know, that nefarious measure that would force farmers to treat their animals humanely) to conjure up the spectre of the Reconquista in this ominous ad. Dig the long lines! And it's not the first time Prop. 2 opponents have bagged on Mexico:

  October 28, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 27, 2006

• Vicente Fox

  April 2, 2009

• Is The Mexican Consulate Crumbling Under New Leadership?

  For months we've had a sneaking suspicion that the new Mexican consul in Santa Ana was working hard to transform the consulate from the effective, outreach-heavy post it once was under wildly popular former consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to a mere prop of elitist Mexican puffery. Many have whispered that the consulate has taken a turn for the worst under the direction of new consul Carlos Rodríguez y Quezada and his sidekick Manuel Herrera, the deputy consul who clashed with Ortiz Haro on numero

  December 18, 2008

• Santa Ana Mexican Consulate Subject of Protests in Mexico City

  Supporters of longtime Santa Ana Mexican consulate employees who say they were fired without cause last month by a newly politicized consular team which some have accused of favoritism and elitism, protested in front of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) in Mexico City late last week. The group demanded the reinstatement of the longtime Santa Ana consular employees and the intervention of Mexican president Felipe Calderón. The tricky thing for the gro

  January 14, 2009

• Vicente Fox UCI Visit Draws "Welcoming Committee"

  Photo by Ariel Gutierrez Vivanco/Presidencia de la RepublicaThe "Vicente Fox Welcoming Committee at UCI" won't be bearing flowers, fruit baskets or a key to the university when Mexico's former president visits the campus Wednesday. Fox, who is being hosted by the university's Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), gives a public lecture 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Irvine Barclay Theatre. An invitation-only reception and $500 a plate dinner are also scheduled."Students at UC-Irvine in Orange County

  April 6, 2009

• Not Much of a 'Welcoming Committee' for Vicente Fox

  If the three people standing outside Irvine Barclay Theater late this afternoon represented the "Vicente Fox Welcoming Committee at UCI," the committee that has not forgotten Chiapas, Atenco, and Oaxaca, the committee that "opposes Fox and other oppressors wherever they show their faces," the committee that felt there was "a good chance" that they would "be arrested or suspended" because OC is, after all, "a hostile community," well, they weren't much of a committee, sub-committee

  April 8, 2009

• Orange County's Mexican Consul, Carlos Rodriguez y Quezada, Sparks Protests, Burns Bridges

  February 19, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Guadalupe Edition

  December 11, 2008

• Drinko de Mayo

  May 1, 2008

• How the Minutemen Drove Mobile Mexican Consulates Out of the Capistrano Unified School District

  March 6, 2008

• Zack Is Back

  November 30, 2006

• Gunkist Oranges

  June 8, 2006

• Unflinching Sincerity

  May 4, 2006

• Too Much Cabo Wabo

  March 9, 2006

• The Children of Imperialismo

  January 5, 2006

• Letter From Mazatlan

  New Orleans shows were about a single disaster from the Third World

  September 15, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  September 15, 2005

• Special on Sambo, Aisle Dos!

  July 14, 2005

• How-to Manual for Deportation

  January 20, 2005

• Answer: Because Mexicans Never Return to Mexico

  January 22, 2004

• Scorecard

  July 10, 2003

• Where Murder Doesnt Matter

  May 22, 2003

• Rebel Yell

  April 1, 1999

• How to Kill a Factory

  September 3, 1998

• Edward Hirsch

  May 7, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Wedding-Bell Azules

  September 3, 2009