Nogales

The Lost Mexicans of the Bastanchury Ranch

80 years ago, officials deported hundreds of Fullerton residents—and Orange County has tried to forget ever since

Marisa Gerber, Chingona Cub Reporter, Leaving the Weekly to Go Back Home :-(

Off to better places you go, kid...​For the past three years, the Weekly has given kiddies straight out of college an opportunity to do a six-month stint with us at a reporter's salary. Our first person was Spencer Kornhaber, who wrote THE definitive piece on Birfer queen Orly Taitz, was a staffer ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants

But what's been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty

Grinding Justice

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

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

​The actual taco-related crime of the week happened in Nogales, Sonora. I was in Tucson last week and picked up a copy of a Spanish-language paper, which recounted the tale of a girlfriend who tried to smuggle some happy pills to her imprisoned guy by inserting them into a bean taco--it was Sonora ... More >>

Orange County's Original Minutemen

I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>

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I Steel Them From You!

10 Mexican-bashing songs from the rock & roll canon

A Reality Shrine for a Wired World

The year in coffeehouse founder Carl Diedrich

Not Dead Yet

Readers persuade Times to reconsider spiking Gurza column

Charles Mingus' Monkey

Seedy Review

New albums, old sounds