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Garden Grove Cops to Hugo Sarmiento: 'This Mexican Speaks English!'

[Moxley Confidential] Targeted for torture after a 2005 anti-immigration rally, the UCLA Ph.D. is still waiting for justice

Coyotl Tezcatlipoca Loses But So Does City in Ruling Over Costa Mesa Law Targeting Dissent

The Costa Mesa City Council was legally in the right to twice remove immigrant-rights activist and punk rocker Coyotl Tezcatlipoca (a.k.a. Benito Acosta) from council meetings in 2006 under a municipal ordinance that makes it a misdemeanor for members of the public to engage in "disorderly . . . or ... More >>

Esteben Colberto v. Minuteman Jaime Gilchristo on Tonight's Colbert Report?

Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman Project--think the American Revolution, only the British have been replaced by desperate brown people looking for work--makes an appearance on tonight's Comedy Central masterpiece, The Colbert Report.Can we expect an appearance by Esteban Colberto?

What We Learned, March 24-30

​The week flew by, but we still learned from it.MARCH 24: Octomom Nadya Suleman earns $8,000 posing nude for a British magazine. She is not using the money to save her La Habra house, as that's listed for sale as a foreclosure, but to rent a new pad for her, her 14 kids and the gaggle of gossip re ... More >>

What We Learned, Jan. 21-Jan. 27

​A random collection of this week's randomness randomly tagged with random observations of what we learned from it.JAN. 21: Orange County's Democratic establishment is thrown into a tizzy as Julio Perez, formerly of the Orange County Labor Federation, handily gets more votes than his 69th Assembly ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

[UPDATED with Veteran Prosecutor Joining Defense:] "Irvine 11" Again Go Before the Judge

Liroff​UPDATE, MAY 31, 1:18 P.M.: The lead prosecutor in the "Irvine 11" misdemeanor criminal conspiracy case is Dan Wagner, who earlier this year was named head of the Orange County District Attorney's Homicide Unit. He'll now match legal wits with another veteran homicide prosecutor as Lane Liro ... More >>

Where are the Loncheras at the Luxe-Lonchera Fests?

Photo by the Elmo MonsterReal damn street food: the taco acorazado at Alebrije's​I wasn't able to attend this past weekend's OC Foodie Fest (congrats to the organizers, btw, on the turnout) because I attended another one: the Eat Real Festival, held around Jack London Square in Oakland. You though ... More >>

13 Reasons Gilchrist's Push for an Arizona SB1070 Law in Rhode Island Makes Sense

​Jim Gilchrist, the Aliso Viejo founder of the Minuteman Project, sent a letter to supporters announcing the group's push to bring an "Arizona-type law" to Rhode Island."The Minuteman Project," he writes, "is going to do everything they can to proclaim Rhode Island and New England as the new fro ... More >>

Barbara Coe, Orly Taitz Claim Electoral Fraud in OC Sheriff Race Against Bill Hunt, Blame Sheriff "Hutchinson"

Coe, with Hunt; the blob at the left is America's Most Corrupt® Sheriff, Joe Arpayaso​In addition to spawning Proposition 187, the Minuteman Project, and gads more evil shit into this world, let the record show that the California Coalition for Immigration Reform also birthed Orly Taitz, queen of ... More >>

Battle of the Mariachis

Mission San Juan Capistrano

¿Ask a Minuteman?

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

Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism

God bless Jim Gilchrist!​So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>

As the Know Nothings Turn: Jim Gilchrist versus His Former Allies

Gheen: Once called a Gilchrist supporter a "butt boy"​It's hard to keep up these days with who hates who in the various anti-immigrant movements. Most folks hate Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist even though everyone else would be nothing without him. Gilchrist doesn't like California Coalit ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Arpayaso Claims the Know Nothing Crown

The Godfather of Mexican-Haters to Visit CCIR Tomorrow!

What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty fo ... More >>

The Curious Case of the Crapping Minuteman

A couple of weeks ago, I received a fascinating envelope with the claim that a Minuteman Project member sent a racist letter to Wahoo's Fish Tacos founder Wing Lam AND took a shit in a Wahoo's trash can. The envelope carried a letter purportedly written by Minuteman Project member Brian Gilmore, and ... More >>

Jim and Ted's Excellent (Immigrant-Bashing) Adventure

If you thought you missed your chance to pelt the father of the once headline-gobbling Minuteman Project and his Cricket playing, immigrant-hating homeless sidekick with your burning questions (Why do you wear a straight-jacket-vest-thing over your clothes? Are you gay?), you'll get your chance this ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] 'Is There a Turnstile at the Border Tallying Up Illegals?'

Jim Gilchrist to Speak at Long Beach State Today--Students, Please Go

The Southern California progressive community is abuzz with word that Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and his anti-illegals pal, Ted Hayes, will "lecture" at Long Beach State today. "The topic is to inform students and the general public on the Racist Agenda of the La Raza at the national, c ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

[Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15

San Diego Minutemen Get Back Their San Clemente Adopt-a-Highway Sign

Mere hours after the Weekly's story regarding the tale of two Minuteman Project Adopt-a-Highway signs hit the streets, a federal judge ordered Caltrans to restore the one on Interstate 5 near the San Onofre immigration checkpoint sponsored by the San Diego Minutemen. In a misleading email sent out l ... More >>

Do the Differing Fates of Two Minutemen Freeway Signs Show a Double Standard at Caltrans?

Orange County: A Personal History Gets Starred PW Review!

Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Stay Home and Watch 'COPS' With Your Traditional Mexican Woman

Quien es Más Minuteman?

You'll be hard-pressed to ever find two sides in a lawsuit less sympathetic than the parties who are scheduled to show up in Orange County Superior Court on May 27. On one side will stand Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, who was fired last year from the organization he founded for accusation ... More >>

Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's 14

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

Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Street dirt

More Street dirt: In his pre-treasurer-tax collector days, Chriss Street allegedly billed (and double-billed!) a bankrupt trust "for thousands of dollars in expenses, including a $3,584 laptop computer and $1,200 in office supplies," reports Ronald Campbell at the Register. The records collected by ... More >>

Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Hanging with Henry Segerstom

Pair of Jacks: To build the impressive Great Park that it has promised, Larry Agran’s Irvine political machine is desperate for new sources of revenue. Congressman John Campbell (R-Nothing Down; Drive Off The Lot) wants to block Agran, a Democrat, from partnering with the Juaneno Mission Indians, ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: It worked for the Chinese?

The Final Solution: Alicia Robinson at the Daily Pilot takes over court duty in the Benito Acosta trial and finds ACLU lawyers continuing to press their point that Acosta’s arrest for speaking at a Costa Mesa city council meeting was “political.” At a 2006 public meeting, Mayor Allan Mansoor ... More >>

Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Who the Hell Does Benito Acosta Think He Is?

Heil, err, Mansoor! Let’s see . . . Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor let people with the Minutemen Project stand during a 2006 city council meeting to show their support for his police-immigration plan. Later, at the same public meeting, other people lead by Benito Acosta attempted to stand in the ... More >>

Unfortunate Acronym of the Day

Earlier today, representatives from the Arizona Interfaith Network, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Kansas City's El Centro and the United Farm Workers set up a teleconference call to argue why comprehensive immigration reform is necessary. They met under the name Coalition for Comprehensive Imm ... More >>

Going, Going, Gone to Court

The question of which Nguyen won is about to be answered. Or maybe not. The Los Angeles Times reports that OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has finished the recount of the February 6 special election, and determined that Janet Nguyen is the winner. Republican Nguyen's margin of victory over Rep ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Three-Question Especial

Neo-Nazis for Gilchrist

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has a piece on Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-sealing Minutemen Project, tolerating neo-Nazis campaigning for him when he ran unsuccessfully for an Orange County congressional seat last year. We think someone misunderstood when it was s ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

'Mexicans arent HispanicMexicans are Mexican'

Unflinching Sincerity

Unitarian Human Rights Forum

Keeping the White in White House

I've never doubted that Aliso Viejo's Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was deluded, but until now I've never suspected he's delusional as well. Gilchrist tells the rightwing news service WorldNetDaily that he's seriously considering running for President of the United States. Gilchri ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

The year in Mexican-bashing

Letters

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

Silence Is Golden

THE RIGHT IS RIGHT

Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing

FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPING TRAIL

Ex-Minuteman Bryan Barton puts the party in partisan agenda

TOO TOUGH TO DIE

On the borderline with the Minutemen, the media and MS-13

The Disorder at the Border

Rating the sides in the April 1 Arizona-Mexico border free-for-all