(Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) Hundreds of immigrants, joined by Democratic minority lawmakers, called Monday for the ouster of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying his support of armed citizen patrols on the Mexican border was ‘‘terrible,’’ ‘‘irresponsible’’ and ‘‘discriminatory.’’

The so-called Minuteman Project involves hundreds of volunteers, some armed, who have been patrolling the Arizona border since April 1 to document and report incidents of illegal crossing. The group is planning its first California patrols near San Diego in August.

‘‘Today, we’re here to fight back’’ against what President Bush has denounced as vigilantism, said Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, a Southgate Democrat who was among a string of Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area lawmakers who addressed demonstrators outside the Capitol.