Illegal Immigration and Deportation

Los Angeles Times Nixes Use Of Term 'Illegal Immigrant'

The Los Angeles Times today followed Associated Press and nixed use of the term "illegal immigrant" in its stories. This followed a long campaign by some immigrants' rights activists, including the L.A.-based National Hispanic Media Coalition, which said that a person shouldn't be forever described ... More >>

'Illegal Immigrant' Stays At New York Times; L.A. Latino Group Mad

Illegal immigrant. The New York Times, the grand, gray lady of journalism, is sticking with it, the paper announced today. That despite Associated Press' decision to nix the term in favor of describing people as being here illegally (as opposed to being an inherently "illegal" person because of one ... More >>

'Illegal Immigrant' Could Be On The Chopping Block At Los Angeles Times Too

This week the Associated Press declared it would no longer use the term "illegal immigrant." It was big news in journalism, because the AP Stylebook's usage guidelines are the ones followed by most of us in news media. A few publications, including the Los Angeles Times, have their own style books ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Arizona's Immigration Law Author, Says Villaraigosa a Tool of Mexico

Russell Pearce is the psycho ex-state senator from Arizona who authored its infamous anti-illegal-immigration law, SB 1070. (By psycho, we mean this: Pearce recently wrote that the victims in the Aurora massacre should have risen up and taken the suspect down. Yeah). The Arizona Republic recently p ... More >>

Miramonte Parents Scared L.A. Sheriff Will Deport Them -- Turning Sex-Scandal Probe Into Immigration Debate

As if they don't have enough to worry about.​No matter the hot L.A. news item, it always seems to turn into an immigration debate. And that should come as no surprise: Rough estimates have placed close to 1 million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County. And whenever law enforcement or pres ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants Beware: L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Run Your Fingerprints in the Field

The L.A. Sheriff's Department is busting with pride over its brand-new fleet of "state-of-the-art mobile data computers" -- the first of which are now installed in the patrol vehicles of a few lucky deputies. In some ways, the computers are an overdue boot into the 21st century. Turns out deputies ... More >>

Anchor Baby Benefits in L.A. Cost Taxpayers $54 Million in June: County Leader Mike Antonovich is Pissed at Price of Illegals

Antonovich.​L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is continuing his campaign against illegal aliens, announcing that undocumented families that have so-called American-citizen anchor babies cost area taxpayers $54 million in welfare benefits in June alone. He says the projected cost of such ... More >>

Special April Fool's Edicion

If Arizona Legalized All Latino Immigrants (Fat Chance), State Would Collect $1.6 Billion More in Taxes, Says UCLA Report

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: generally wrong about things​We know wackjob Arizona officials aren't really too into facts anymore, in their SB 1970 crusade to hunt down every last undocumented Latino and throw 'em all back to the drug lords down south, but UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda jus ... More >>

Your Legislature At Work: As Budget Talks Drag On, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly Tries To Get Illegal Immigrant Ousted From Fresno State Student Government

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly​Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, is one of the last Republicans you'd expect to play a constructive role in the stalemated budget talks. He's a Tea Party guy, and his whole campaign was a rebuke to Anthony Adams, one of the "traitors" who voted for tax increases bac ... More >>

Good News for Undocumented Workers: Legalization Leads to More Money

​Undocumented workers and those in favor of legalizing them received a dose of inspiring news when a pair of local economics professors announced the results of their recent study: Legalizing illegal immigrants will significantly increase undocumented workers' wages. But wait, that's not all.

California DREAM Act Proposed (Again) By L.A. State Assemblyman Gil Cedillo: Taxypayer-Funded Student Aid For ... Illegals?

​The national DREAM Act, which would have created a path to permanent residency in the United State for some illegal immigrant college students, might have died in Congress last month. But L.A. state Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, an L.A. Democrat, is reviving his own version of the California DREA ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Mexican Macro-economics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

FAIRY-y Tales

Tim Donnelly's Revolution

Tea Party newcomer wants Legislature to adopt Arizona immigration law

Halloween Contestants Poke Fun at Meg Whitman's Anti-Dream Act Stance

Jose EsquivelJuana Noriega, of Los Angeles, won't let Meg Whitman "kill" her dreams​ Meg Whitman haters gathered at downtown 's Placita Olvera for some early Halloween fun by hosting a "Meg the Dream Killer" costume contest that takes a swipe at the gubernatorial hopeful's immigrant-bashing po ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Meg Whitman Wants Nicky Diaz Deported, Also Wants To Make Coats From Puppies' Fur

Ted SoquiNicky Diaz​When the Nicky Diaz story broke, Meg Whitman steadfastly refused to say whether she thought her former housekeeper should be deported. It was a no-win situation. If she said yes, she looked cruel; if she said no, then she didn't believe in the rule of law.Whether that was the b ... More >>

U.S.-Mexico Border 'More Secure Than Ever' In 2010, Claims Secretary Of Homeland Security

APJanet Napolitano, detained in the desert​Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made a highly publicized trip to Los Angeles' nearest border yesterday. She was quick and happy to tell the nation's news outlets from San Ysidro that illegal immigration has dropped 17 percent in the last ... More >>

Welcome To America, Now Give Us Your Car: Do Los Angeles Area DUI Checkpoints Target Poorer Areas, Immigrants?

dogwelder via Flickr​A report in La Opinion this week (Google translate) indicates that, yeah, cops tend to target immigrant neighborhoods when they set up DUI checkpoints. Why? Maybe because so many unlicensed drivers -- illegal immigrants can't get California licenses -- means police can seize l ... More >>

Gloria Allred Announces That Latina Housekeeper Will File Claim In Los Angeles Against Meg Whitman, Woman's Former Employer

​Updated after the jump with more comments from Whitman and a response from Jerry Brown's campaign. First posted at 10:38 a.m. If you were waiting for the dirty tricks to start dropping in the governor's race, wait no more: Attorney Gloria Allred announced Wednesday morning that a former hous ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Should The LAPD Be More Aggressive Against Illegal Immigrants?

​It's a question that has been asked since the days of former Chief Daryl Gates and beyond: Should the Los Angeles Police Department pursue illegal immigration as a crime unto itself? Ever since Gates initiated the department's controversial Special Order 40 some officers have felt handcuffed ... More >>

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

A Week Of Protest In L.A. As Demonstrators Decry Arizona's Immigration Law, Set To Take Effect Thursday

​Activists decrying Arizona's controversial immigration law will hold banners on bridges spanning the 101 freeway downtown during the afternoon commute Monday. The group calls itself "We Are All Arizona" and will be in action on the Broadway Avenue, Spring Street and Grand Avenue overpasses to ... More >>

Welcome to Mi Pueblito: The Small-Town, Family-Farm Lifestyle That We Cherish Is Being Preserved Thanks to Mexican Immigrants

Meg Whitman Woos Latinos, Says She's Against Arizona's Immigration Law

​Even before she won the Republican primary after a dog fight with opponent Steve Poizner to determine who was more vehemently against illegal immigration, it was predicted that gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman would start to move left on the issue because the Latino vote in California is s ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

L.A. Republicans To Protest City Hall's Stance Against Arizona

​The Republican Party of Los Angeles County is planning a demonstration Tuesday against the city of Los Angeles' boycott of Arizona over its controversial immigration law. The event is scheduled to take place at 8:45 a.m. on the lawn outside City Hall. Gary Aminoff, vice chairman of the count ... More >>

L.A. Black Group Criticizes Mayor, Council Members Over Anti-Arizona Stance (Updated)

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.​A Los Angeles-based African-American "cultural action" organization is criticizing L.A. City Council members who support a boycott of Arizona over its controversial immigration law. (Updated after the jump with background on the group's leader). Council members Janice ... More >>

Number Of Illegal Immigrants Decreased By One Million Since 2007

​The number of illegal immigrants in the United States was down about 800,000 last year compared to 2008, reportedly as a result of the recession and fewer job opportunities. The decrease from 11.6 million undocumented workers in 2008 to 10.8 million in 2009 was reported by the U.S. Department ... More >>

Gov. Says Send Illegal Inmates To Mexico

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday suggested that the state could save money by sending the 20,000 illegal immigrants he says are incarcerated by California to Mexico on the state's dime. " ... We can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take inmates -- for instanc ... More >>

Legalizing Illegal Immigrants Would Goose Economy, Professor Argues

UCLARaul Hinojosa-Ojeda.​There's perennial talk of how illegal immigrants take jobs from American citizens and burden taxpayer-funded institutions like public hospitals and schools. But one UCLA professor says that's all wrong: Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA associate professor of Chicano studies, ... More >>

Going Viral (and Vile) About Swine Flu and Immigration

"Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico." These words, spoken in the tremulous, outraged voice of California radio jock Michael Savage, are typical of the "debate" that is already inflaming the airwaves and blogosphere in the ... More >>

New Slant on Italics

And could Cesar Chavez be an icon of the Minutemen?

Remember the Immigrant-Rights Movement?

The case of Elvira Arellano inspires L.A. organizers

Train

Line-Cutters and Illegals

Minuteman Divisions

Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement

On the Border of Hypocrisy

The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

Ghosts in the Machine

When you're lost in El Centro's immigrant detention center you may be lost for good

Black Eye

INS agent draws prison time for smuggling

Letters

INS-Style Justice

Plea bargains approved, but future remains unclear for the El Centro Five

Immigrant Workers

The law that keeps them chained

Immigrants Rounded Up

INS deports hundreds in garment factory raids