For decades, I was able to disagree with my hometown orange County. It was like a Civic version of Broadway’s classic, “You can do everything (I can do it better).”

Cue of low light reel!

• In a 1986 time magazine article, Harold Ezel, a new port beach, criticized immigrants in the western part of the immigration naturalized service at the time and using illegal documents. “If you catch them, you should clean and fry themselves,” he said.
• In 1988, Republican members posted a sign that non -citizens could not vote for security guards in uniforms outside the Santa Anana voting booth.
• A group of residents including Ezell -Proposition 18777, California’s voting measures in 1994, “illegal aliens” and their children. After defeating Margarita in El Trit, they named this Initiative “Save Our State.”
• In 1996, the Anaheim City Council has allowed immigration to screen the legal status of the detainees of the city prison, the first program in California.
• Three years later, an Anaheim Union High School Council has passed a resolution to appeal to Mexico for $ 50 million for the cost of educating people like me, a child of unauthorized immigrants.
• A long time ago, the GOP’s tradition, the local Republican candidates and politicians traveled to the border and boasted how severe they were.
• In 2005, Mission Vierho’s grandfather Jim Gilkrist adopted a suburban project to help the Border Guard to find immigration in the country illegally. In the same year, the mayor of Costamesa, Alan Mansour, tried to let police execute the federal immigration law.

From the theoreticalization of how to abolish the citizenship of gorgeous rights, from California’s “sanctuary” state law to enable immigrants and customs enforcement agencies to retain detectors in city and county prison. Indicated that it is as punishable as possible in other regions of the country. Not documented. When Donald Trump is in the White House again, it doesn’t know that Legacy has the most powerful Akorite ever.

If you oppose large -scale expulsion and want to see some kind of amnesty, it’s easy to curse orange -gun for the past and feel easier. I came to the latter for almost every adult. At first, as a college activist, then as a columnist. That’s the theme I want to leave, but to paraphrase Michael Corleone, it keeps me back.

I have not lost all hopes because I have covered Orange County for a quarter century. I know the results of the OC burned earth campaign for illegal immigrants. At first, the national conversation was pushed to the right, but it was eventually equal to the exploding cigar.

Proposal 187 has passed, but my California Latin American generation has been democratic for decades and organized OC GOP forever. With local anger at the voting initiative, Loretta Sanchez’s historic 1996 historic victory in 1996 became the first OC Latin she was selected as a parliament. Her victory was very surprising, and the lower house small committee investigated Donan’s claim that immigrants voted illegally in the elections and shake it for Sanchez (they did not. did).

Minitman Project? It quickly burned up.

John Eastman is a former director of Chapman’s Law School, who revealed Trump’s interest in banning the right to grow in the article of Cochammy 2020, which claims that Camara Harris is not a “naturally born citizen.” Was it? He has been disciplined by pushing Trump’s unfounded claims that Joe Biden stealed the 2020 election.

Costameza? Currently, there are advanced Latin -related city councils, which are loud from Mansour’s actions.

As the age passed, destroying immigrants for political benefits in orange County was not as popular as before. Trump has never gained a county, despite the harmful rhetoric in the three presidential election. UC urbine sorting ecology voting It has been shown that 28 % of the OC residents released this month believe that immigrants are locally “the best problems.” Compared to the 1993 public opinion poll, the number was set to 80 %. On the other hand, in a UC UC -UC -UC public opinion poll, 58 % of the OCs have supported some legal status to immigrants who have nothing, but 35 % preferred overseas expulsion. 。

This is no longer an orange -gun in John Wayne. Hell, not my。 What has changed?

Population statistics, one. In 1990, 65 % of the counties were in the county, as the anger of illegal immigrants began to be furious in South California. 14 years later, the number of US census has indicated that the OC has become a minority. With the latest statistics, only 37 % of whites are. Nearly one -third of the inhabitants are born in foreign countries, immigrants live throughout the county, occupying all the lamps of social ladder. Is it difficult to destroy them when they are your neighbors, your child’s friend, your in -law, or your colleague?

The changing population statistics have also led to the county’s political purple supply. Few OC politicians other than the Maga City Council in Huntington Beach have publicly praised Trump’s promise to crack down on immigrants. Even OC Sheriff Don Burns is as liberal as Winchester’s rifle, and even his agent has “executed the number of prisoners in the prison that has taken over to immigration authorities. A news release that claims to continue to be concentrated in the state and local laws, rather than participating in Trump’s exiles of the country.

Above all, it is the activist who has an old orange county. Here, there was always a pushback to the anti -immigrant madness. When I was an Anaheim Hi’s second year student, thousands of high school students came out of the class to protest against the proposition 187. In 2006, there was a large rally in Santa Anana. A bill that made the proposition 187 look as friendly as President Reagan’s pardon. However, most of these efforts were accidental, left to internal conflicts between Chicanosauruses, and did not develop into full -fledged movements.

In the past 15 years, not only Latin -Americans, but also activists who grew up here have organized, sitting, forming non -profit organizations or community -based groups, and standing up for those without documents. Combined with a multi -front network. They exerted ice from local prisons, supported various lawsuits to change local policies, and helped the parent candidate to live in the school committee and the city council.

If such a loud and successful resistance may occur in Orange County, it can happen anywhere. It’s not easy, but it’s possible -no, needed.

One of the people fighting with a good battle is Sandra de Anda, a Santaanana. She is a network coordinator of an orange counting lapid response network that runs a hotline that links immigrants to legal support and reports ice witnesses.

31 -year -old he grew up historically on a nearby Minnie Street in Cambodia and Latin. Migration The detained residents are always “always”. When she returned from Portland, Oregon in 2017, De Anda began volunteering a parent immigration group.

She is proud of how far the orange county has come, and is committed to her cause more than ever. Friends and family are worried about her safety, but De -Anda is not obsessed with her.

“There is such a troublesome conservative tradition here, but our people have been here for a long time,” she told me after a long day of work. Ta. “We are worth staying here. We have to fight together through all means for the next four years.”