Many U.S. immigration laws are Band-Aid solutions to calming hysterical people, akin to giving a screaming child a toy rather than smack him in front of everyone at the Wal-Mart. Which is why New York firefighters in the small...

U.S. Border Patrol officials finally released plans recently for the 700-mile stretch of “fence” the government hopes to build along the Texas-Mexico border. Though the majority of Texans have expressed their vehement opposition to the plan, citing reasons like...

Loudmouthed, Colorado Congressman and Republican candidate for president Tom Tancredo has called for the resignation of a Texas Border Patrol chief after he made some remarks that may not mesh with the patrol’s mission to hunt down those rascally...

File this away under reasons Congress is dumb for authorizing construction a fence that’ll span 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border: government- employed fence menders in El Paso bitch about their job daily, and they only deal with one...

It’s been a week since Pedro Guzman, the mentally disabled Los Angeles native whom customs people mistakenly deported to Tijuana three months ago, was reunited with his family. During that time, we haven’t seen anything pop up on the...

Three months after the U.S. Government mistakenly deported a Hispanic, developmentally disabled, Los Angeles native from an L.A. County jail to Mexico, (whoops!), he has been found. Guanabee has been following the adventures of Pedro Guzman since this story...

We don’t get it. The president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, speaking at a session in the Mexican senate, said the proposed U.S.-Mexico border security fence is, “offensive for Mexico and all the peoples of Latin America and the World.”...

Some people here at the office think we can be a little heavy handed in the mornings with our political angst. So we thought we’d share a funny with you instead. Thanks to Immigrant Orange for pointing it out....

Remember that time the friendly folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement mistakenly deported a 29 year-old, mentally disabled American citizen from Los Angeles to Tijuana? This week, L.A. Weekly published an exclusive 5-page feature story following Pedro Guzman’s mother...

We were pointed to an interesting article on the issue of border security between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt. The usual border town situation applies: sleepy communities, interdependent economies and social structures. (On one street, residents on one...

• The Today Show says white is the new black. We thought Mexicans were. [Today Show] • Almodovar wants to work in English. Let’s hope it works out better than Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz. Cuz it’s three strikes...

Thanks to stricter border security after 9/11, the United States government is making it very hard for a group of foreign workers close to our hearts to enter this country: Canadian indie rockers. It doesn’t help that when it...

You’re going to love this one. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday for deporting 29-year-old Los Angeles-born Pedro Guzman, a developmentally disabled American citizen who was serving a 120-day trespassing sentence in a Los...

In keeping with our coverage of the plight of old, white Americans we point you now to a Bill O’Reilly interview with Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain. In the midst of discussing the Immigration Reform Bill,...

Just after the ALMA awards last night, ABC news decided to re-air a scathing expose on the Southwestern American pizza chain Pizza Patron which started accepting pesos at their locations in March. Apparently with today’s touchy political climate, some...

We love this ad a reader tipped us off to that was produced by Where’s the Fence?, a self-described “grass-fire” organization (because they seek to destroy everything in their path?) whose goal is to call Congress to task on...

Looking for a kick-ass study abroad experience? We at Guanabee gotchou covered. The Houston Chronicle tells the story of a south Texan community that’s up in arms over the secrecy of a fence the Border Patrol might end up...

Take five minutes to get cozy with a clip of The Colbert Report where our favorite right-winger illustrates a modest proposal for controlling the border. Wish we had thought of that! Props to U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva for taking...