Juan Esparza Loera

Fresno mom followed the rules and was imprisoned by ICE. This is wrong | Opinion A Fresno mother should be released by ICE. She is not the only one who deserves better.

14.11.2025 16:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump fans lied. No commies, haters or paid agitators at Fresno ‘No Kings’ | Opinion Trump supporters said No Kings protest would be littered with communists, rioters, U.S. haters. Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera found none of that.

20.10.2025 18:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Republican memes of sombreros, mustaches are racist and childish. Apologize | Opinion While federal workers are furloughed because of a government shutdown, the White House and Sen. Ted Cruz are posting racist memes.

19.10.2025 19:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s ag secretary Rollins can’t continue to snub California’s farmers | Opinion The Fresno Bee Editorial Board says the agriculture secretary has plenty to learn about California’s $61.2 billion agricultural industry.

03.10.2025 19:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins needs to visit California's farmers.
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18.09.2025 21:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is President Trump a ‘bad hombre’ for ignoring Hispanic Heritage Month? | Opinion For the first time in almost four decades, a president has not issued a proclamation for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Praying that Charlie’s Kirk’s shooter ‘not be one of us’ is false religion | Opinion Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera believes Utah governor’s prayers are misguided.

16.09.2025 22:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too bad more Republican politicians aren’t as healing as Fresno’s mayor | Opinion Fresno mayor’s message on unity and pro immigration deserves a bigger platform, believes Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera.

15.09.2025 21:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crazy talk: A Trump crony says Mexican farmworkers can be replaced by Americans | Opinion The Fresno Bee Editorial Board suggests President Donald Trump has an easy solution for farming operations and immigration: a bipartisan bill.

15.09.2025 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A ‘Star Wars’ actor has a better take on immigration than our president | Opinion “All the people that I met shared an unspoken gratitude to this country, a country that opened its doors to them,” actor Diego Luna said.

09.07.2025 17:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mexican actor Diego Luna was impressive with his monologue as guest host of "The Jimmy Kimmel Show" last night.
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24.06.2025 20:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Javier’s Mexican Restaurant and its founder remain a Fresno institution | Opinion Javier’s Mexican Restaurant and its late owner, Louie Duran, will be more than memories for Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera.

President Trump’s amnesty overlooks other industrious undocumented workers | Opinion President Trump posted on social media that immigration enforcement “is taking very good, longtime workers away” from farmers and hotel owners.

21.06.2025 19:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Handcuffed by the feds, Sen. Alex Padilla was all of us who love California | Opinion “We will hold this administration accountable,” says Sen. Alex Padilla after trying to ask a question of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.

16.06.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Flying the Mexican flag at ICE protests is as American as apple pie | Opinion Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera believes flying the Mexican flag at protests is fine because California was built by immigrants.

12.06.2025 21:03 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Judge’s ruling in Fresno Border Patrol case is not a ‘judicial coup’ | Opinion MAGA followers wrongly accused a federal judge of leading a “judicial coup” for her ruling that holds immigration officers to follow the law, The Fresno Bee Editorial Board writes.

09.06.2025 22:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How UFW founder César Chávez continues to inspire farm workers in California | Opinion Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera provides a glimpse of farm worker leader César E. Chávez and how people view his movement.

02.05.2025 17:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ro Khanna’s Bakersfield town hall reveals voter frustration with Democrats and Trump | Opinion Opinion editor Juan Esparza Loera attended a Democrat’s town hall in a GOP-held Congressional District and discovered discontent with Democrats.

03.04.2025 00:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Democratic Congressman went into a the district of a Republican colleague for a town hall. Here's what happened ...
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26.03.2025 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Signs spotted at a "Benefits over Billionaires" town hall Sunday in Bakersfield, hosted by Silicon Valley Democrat Ro Khanna.

24.03.2025 22:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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California farmworkers feared ‘La Migra’ raids. Is Trump’s deportation crackdown ‘more vicious’? “In the ‘80s we had a lot of raids,” said a former United Farm Workers organizer. “They hit us very hard.”

14.03.2025 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They must have had churros, I didn't see them on the no list.

12.03.2025 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

California lawmaker acts like liberal Donald Trump by ripping GOP off committees | Opinion Opinion of McClatchy California Editorial Boards: Republicans are a superminority in the Legislature. But Democrats should not treat them as inferior.

09.03.2025 20:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UFW sues Border Patrol over Central California immigration raids. What the lawsuit claims “They stopped us because we look Latino or like farmworkers, because of the color of our skin,” said one plaintiff.

05.03.2025 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want a mustache like him!

27.02.2025 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

California law, court rulings will block efforts to make Clovis a non-sanctuary city | Opinion Commentary by Bee opinion writer Tad Weber: “There are moral reasons to keep Clovis as it is, and pretty soon, there could be legal orders to do so as well.”

27.02.2025 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More than 250 folks showed up in Fresno for the 50501 Movement and Political Revolution at Fresno City Hall. The event was organized over the weekend.

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Could Clovis become Fresno County’s first ‘non-sanctuary’ city? Why one leader supports it “I don’t know what the purpose of this is, other than to make a statement,” one resident said.

12.02.2025 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MLK legacy of hope resonates in Fresno, contrasts with Trump’s inaugural address | Opinion Opinion editor Juan Esparza Loera embraces MLK Jr.’s concept of unity and hope over president’s threats of massive deportation.

05.02.2025 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Roughly 26 million people tuned in live to watch the Florida Felon refuse to put its hand on the Bible coz it would burn, down from the nearly 40 million viewers who watched former President Biden's speech in 2021, and the 38.3 million who watched Trump’s first inaugural in 2017 according to Nielsen

21.01.2025 23:28 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 1

California leaders are inexcusably silent as Border Patrol sweeps Central Valley | Opinion Now is not the time to stay quiet, writes the Fresno opinion editor.

21.01.2025 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0