This article explores the historical evolution of Orange County, California's stance on immigration, from its decades-long hostility towards immigrants to a recent shift towards more accepting views. The author highlights past instances of anti-immigrant actions and rhetoric, but emphasizes how the county's demographics and public sentiment have changed over time, leading to a decline in support for punitive immigration policies.
For decades, I could count on my native Orange County to act against immigrants, legal and not, as regularly as the swallows returned to Capistrano. It was like a civic version of the Broadway classic “Anything You Can Do ,” except not as clever and with more xenophobia. Cue the lowlight reel! In a 1986 article in Time magazine, Newport Beach resident Harold Ezell, then director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Western region, criticized immigrants who use fraudulent papers.
As the years went on, trashing immigrants for political gain in Orange County just wasn’t as popular or effective as before. Trump, despite his noxious rhetoric over three presidential campaigns, never won the county. A UC Irvine School of Social Ecology poll released this month showed that 28% of O.C. residents thought immigration was a “top problem” locally — compare that with a 1993 Times poll putting that number at 80%. Meanwhile, the UC Irvine poll found that 58% of people in O.C.
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