Illegal Immigration and Deportation

The Tea Party Knows Who to Blame for Dallas PD's Slow Response: Mexicans

The Dallas Police Department still hasn't given a very satisfying explanation for why it took officers so long to respond to an armed robbery and shooting at a West Dallas grocery on Sunday. Partly it was the 911 caller's heavy accent, partly that officers were working what they thought was a separa ... More >>

Why Don't Legal Immigrants Gripe More about the Undocumented?

Dallas Police Found 15 Assault Rifles in a Suspected Illegal Immigrant's Car Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon at around 3 p.m., Dallas police were sent to check out a silver Pontiac sedan parked suspiciously in an Oak Cliff alley. Officers waited for the driver to pull away, then performed a traffic stop on the 2400 block of Brooklyn Avenue after the car made an illegal turn. Police arr ... More >>

Do Mexicans Worship Chickens?

And why do they get along so well with the Irish?

A Guide to How Obama's New Immigration Policy Will Work, And a Word of Caution

President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer attempt to deport young undocumented immigrants brought here as children, signaling a compassionate shift in an immigration policy whose hallmark was aggressive enforcement and record-shattering ... More >>

Republicans Have a Hispanic Problem, But Texas GOP Thinks It Has the Solution [Updated]

Five months to go and Republicans are waking up to the awful realization that over the course of the primary season -- the last five or six years, really -- they've done their level-best to alienate the largest minority demographic not only in Texas, but in the nation. It is as though the throttling ... More >>

When Arizona's Immigration Law is Upheld, the Floodgates of Hate Will Swing Open

The U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience.

America's War on Brown People Has Gone Too Far

A hostile Supreme Court. A feckless Obama administration. America's war on Mexicans has gone too far.

Laughing With Joe Arpaio: What's Wrong With People?

Whenever the immigration issue comes up, as it has now with the ongoing Supreme Court review of Arizona's anti-immigrant law, so does Joe Arpaio. The famous Phoenix sheriff is in the national news again this week over a recording surfaced by The Associated Press in which Arpaio can be heard doing a ... More >>

Undocumented Immigrants Sue ICE Over its Use of Ankle Monitors in the Dallas Office

A group of undocumented immigrants is asking a federal judge to declare unconstitutional the use of GPS ankle monitors to track immigrants who pose no threat to society. The suit, filed by Arturo Rodriguez of the Isenberg Center for Immigration Equality, targets the ICE Dallas field office and BI I ... More >>

A Thousand Dallas Immigrant Families Broken By Deportation During Six Months in 2011

So often we think of undocumented immigrants as young, rootless men scaling border fences with plastic bags and gallon jugs of water slung over their shoulders. Truth is, people come here, set down roots and have kids. And when they get picked up by authorities, whether for a felony or for something ... More >>

How To Not Get Deported

So, you're an undocumented immigrant. Your great hope is to stick around, make a living and, some day, become naturalized. Unfortunately, our immigration laws are a tangled morass of inscrutability, insensible to the realities of a globalized world. You may have watched last week's Republican deba ... More >>

So How Is Prioritizing Undocumented Immigrant Deportations Going? Suckily.

​It's been nearly six months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton issued a memo to his subordinates, which we'll translate from bureaucrat-speak for you: Look, we got scarce resources, so don't head out into the field looking to pop every Tomas, Diego and Enrique ... More >>

Half-Mexicans: the group everyone can hate, even Mexicans.

Verbal Sparring Between Romney and Perry Highlight GOP Debate, But Three Bachmann Quotes Prove She Needs to Go Home

If you missed last night's CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and interrupting each ... More >>

What Part of Illegal Don't Mexicans Understand?

Activists Call Texas's Voter ID Law Discriminatory, Plead For Feds' Help

"I knew I should have signed that bill with my red-white-and-blue Sharpie."​Hey, maybe this will help Rick Perry shore up support with the Tea Party's Ship-Em-Out Division and his new Arizona boyfriend: Those kooky activists at the ACLU and some of their libtard friends are pleading with the D ... More >>

More Unlicensed Drivers and Longer DMV Lines, All Slipped Into a ... School Finance Bill?

The East Dallas driver's license office on a recent Wednesday morning. Cozy!​Those state-lawmaker types are a shifty bunch, eh? During the state legislature's regular session, lawmakers debated a bill that would have required proof of citizenship or legal status for anyone applying for a new ... More >>

Why Don't Mexicans Just Come to this Country Legally?

And how can we keep them out otherwise?

New York Times on Ralph Isenberg's Efforts to Bring Saad Nabeel Back to North Texas

Mark GrahamRalph Isenberg​We've mentioned in recent months Ralph Isenberg's efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, where a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering scholarship awaits the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad. Nabeel, though, was deported to Bangladesh last ... More >>

The Census Taketh, and the Census Giveth

Illustration by Curt Merlo​More illegals! More illegals over here, please! Ah, you'll have to excuse me. I have been away from my column for weeks with my nose in numbers for an immigration story that appears in this week's paper version of Unfair Park. I may be a little stat-blind. The Census re ... More >>

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Riddle in an Enigma: Puzzled by Austin's Odd Priorities

Apartment Story

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Anna Fermanova's Still in Plano, But the Husband? He's in Moscow. Has Been Since '07.

​Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: What the what does Anna Fermanova's husband do, anyhow? Good question -- especially since Fermanova's attorney, Scott Palmer, says those three high-priced, high-powered scopes she was caught taking to Russia were for a friend of her husband's so he could ... More >>

Why Can't White People Ever Say Goodbye to Old Flames?

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.

Why Would the United States Want to Follow Mexico's Immigration Example?

Is Gabacho Love for Taco Bell Good or Bad for Mexicans?

Arlington PD Says It Doesn't Want to Be in the Business of Enforcing Immigration Laws

CopShop.com​While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations --  top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead ... More >>

Wait a minute…the Mexican actually laughed out loud at a Garfield comic?

Dirt Don't Hurt

Watch an Audrey Tatou flick in Plano

¡Ask a Mexican!

Fire on the Mountain

The Sins of the Father

Cantankerous, proud and devoted to helping immigrants, Father Justin Lucio's singleminded sense of duty led to overblown charges of "scandal"

Letters

Soldiers of Misfortune

Ranch Rescue’s paramilitary posse may have guns and camo gear to keep the border safe, but what they need is a good lawyer

Heavy Traffic

Border drug lords get rich while attorney Mike Barclay gets worn out defending the poor smugglers

Letters

Every egg matters; The little ingrates; Groucho does Iowa; Conan's feminine side; Salt in the wounds

Sweet Jesus

"El Matador" could be a contender, but for the INS

Letters