Just wanted to mention that on the night of July 3rd, sure to avoid most newspaper coverage, the police and sherrif's department of San Juan Capistrano put up a roadblock on Del Obispo, with a hand-lettered sign 'Expect to Show Your Driver's License' - which extracted lines of forty to fifty brown-skinned family members on the sidewalk (I didn't see any white people being hassled), having their cars impounded and their papers challenged, for at least five or six hours.
I don't know how many families were separated, or how many people went to jail for deportation proceedings, but this was a disgusting show, a demonstration of small-mindedness, cold-heartedness, and the bullying of those less powerful.
But I'm sure plenty of the Orange County powers-that-be will think that they are upholding something 'American' on this 4th.