Folllowing up on an item from a couple of weeks ago, it looks like the California GOP's immigration problem is getting worse.

The California Republican Party is having a tough time with immigrants -- but not because of the usual debates over Mexican border crossers. For the nation's largest state GOP, the troubles hit closer to home.

First the party was forced to admit it had hired a Canadian citizen with no political experience to be its new political director, under the H-1B visa program -- a program that grants temporary visas. Now revelations have surfaced that the party's chief operating officer, an Australian citizen, was ordered deported in 2001, spent one month in jail and then filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging wrongful arrest. The officer resigned on Sunday.

The California GOP platform supports federal action to end illegal immigration and calls for an end to non-emergency assistance to illegal immigrants.

I know the state GOP has fallen on hard times, but this is ridiculous.