ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
HOW I BECAME THE CRIMINAL YOU SEE BEFORE YOU TODAY
In 1995, before I was old enough to help much, my parents faced one of those classic dilemmas you get in a freshman philosophy course: to save the life of their dying child or to go back to their home country and [...]

The LA Times watched the legal system fight against itself in yesterday’s story of Michael Campo, a Long Beach boy who’s in the middle of a struggle between two completely different arms of the court. The story revolves mostly around the boy’s divorced parents, as Campo splits time between his mother’s place in Long Beach [...]

Illegal immigration’s bad, m’kay?

So, it’s October 2007 and there’s still no great workable solution–federal, state or local–to illegal immigration.
But thankfully, the Press-Telegram’s recent story about the relocated day laborer center outside the Signal Hill Home Depot gives its editorial writers an excuse to rattle their sabers about illegal immigration for several hundred words.
Not surprisingly, they’re [...]