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SAN DIEGO -- The worst thing about the immigration debate is not the divisiveness. It's the dishonesty.

After more than 36 years of covering this rhetorical shoving match, I can tell you this much: The whole bloody thing is replete with lies. I've compiled a list of the top ten untruths.

Incidentally, the biggest whopper of them all -- No. 1...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My holiday wish for my fellow Americans is that we should all be so lucky in this life as to find someone who loves us as much as President Donald Trump loves Donald Trump.

I realize this is not breaking news. We've known for decades that the billionaire real estate developer and former reality TV star has an ego the size of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The word of the day is reverberating through the world of college football: "Heismendoza." And it's powerful.

As a Mexican American, my father was always excited to see a brown face in a high place. We'd be watching the news, and he'd spot a Spanish surname. He'd point at the screen like a little boy on Christmas morning and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Once the Trump administration started attacking Venezuelan drug boats that appeared to be traveling to the United States, it was inevitable that Americans would be pulled back into a conversation about the much-ballyhooed War on Drugs. Just as it was predictable that, once we were enmeshed in that dialogue, we'd lose our bearings ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- All Americans want for Christmas is for things to cost less. Is that asking too much?

It is if they're making the "ask" of President Donald Trump. When it comes to fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to be the "affordability president," he is way out of his depth. How is Trump supposed to battle inflation if he doesn't even ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- You have to hand it to President Donald Trump. His brutally racist comments about Somali immigrants managed to alarm and terrorize a group of people who -- having survived warlords, famine, and marauding gangs -- don't scare easily.

Some former U.S. presidents might have aspired to emulate George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It's been less than a week since the tragic shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers by an Afghan refugee in Washington D.C. and already many Americans are pretty far down the road in terms of casting blame and discerning motive.

We're even starting to debate what would be historic and radical changes to our asylum ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With all due respect to baseball, the real national pastime is complaining.

Oblivious to how soft and comfortable our lives are compared to those of millions of other people around the world, Americans love to gripe. Whether it's harvest time or not, we make "whine" year-round.

We complain about the weather in the places we ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Democrats take Latino voters for granted. But Republicans must take us for fools.

Burned by both parties, U.S. Latinos are political nomads who don't feel like we can let our guard down in our own country. In this land of the free, we're in a kind of psychological prison.

Oh, one more thing: We're really pissed off.

If you ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My father's love affair with policing was sparked decades ago by a children's book that featured a cat stuck in a tree.

The book was part of a series that was popular in the 1950s. The main characters were two children named Dick and Jane, and they had two pets: a dog and a cat. One day, the cat climbs up a tree. A friendly ...Read more