CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 5, 2006 | Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
A petition drive to ban day-labor centers and bar illegal immigrants from renting apartments in San Bernardino has gathered enough signatures to force a City Council vote on the proposal, potentially setting off another political maelstrom in a Southern California city grappling with immigration issues.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 25, 2005 | David Pierson and Wendy Lee, Times Staff Writers
Set at the junction of two freeways and along a major railroad route, the working-class town of Baldwin Park likes to call itself "the Hub of the San Gabriel Valley." But the city, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and nearly 80% Latino, today finds itself the hub of an increasingly bitter fight over illegal immigration.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 27, 2006 | Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
As Congress debates the polarizing issue of immigration, the founder of an anti-illegal immigrant group is pushing for San Bernardino to outlaw day labor sites and bar the undocumented from renting property.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 12, 2005 | Lisa Richardson, Times Staff Writer
Save Our State, the in-your-face anti-illegal immigration group, was thrilled. Its long-held desire to forge ties to the black community was at last to be realized. Invited to speak to a black community forum in Leimert Park this month, SOS founder Joseph Turner was sure that by the time he finished expressing his outrage about the impact of illegal immigration on jobs, schools and neighborhoods, Save Our State would have new, equally outraged allies. But it was not to be.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 27, 2006 | Ted Rohrlich, Times Staff Writer
For a couple of hours Saturday, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights. A few dozen people from Save Our State and like-minded groups lined up behind police barricades, shouted into bullhorns and waved American flags to protest characterizations of the heavily Latino, square-mile city by some elected officials as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
NEWS
September 10, 1995 | AMANDA COVARRUBIAS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Francisco Javier Leyva lives in Southern California but drives the 10 miles to Tijuana, Mexico, at least once a week to visit friends and family. Because his life straddles the border, he would welcome the opportunity to become an American citizen while retaining his Mexican nationality. "I would like to be a U.S. citizen, but sometimes you just don't want to lose your Mexican" nationality, said Leyva, 37, owner of a children's clothing store in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista.