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Bronze Member Username: Guanajuatos_bestPost Number: 60 Registered: Jul-07 | Immigration activist arrested in L.A. By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press Writer Article Launched: 08/19/2007 04:08:17 PM PDT Click photo to enlarge In this booking photo released by Immigration and... (AP Photo/Immigration and Customs Enforcement) * « * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * » LOS ANGELES--An illegal immigrant who stayed in a Chicago church for a year to avoid separation from her 8-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was arrested Sunday and being processed for deportation. Elvira Arellano, who arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday after leaving her sanctuary to campaign for immigration reform, was arrested around 1:30 p.m. outside Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church where she had been speaking to reporters, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist, the Chicago church. Arellano was "being processed for removal to Mexico based upon a deportation order originally issued by a federal immigration judge in 1997," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a news release. Immigration activists promised protests and vigils to support her. "We are sad, but at the same time we are angry," said Javier Rodriguez, a Chicago immigration activist who worked with her. "How dare they arrest this woman?" Anti-illegal immigrant groups said the arrest was long overdue. "Just because the woman has gone public and made an issue of the fact that she is defying law doesn't mean the government doesn't have to do its job," said Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors limits on immigration. Arellano, 32, has become a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy. She had said Saturday she was not afraid of being taken into Advertisement custody by immigration agents. "From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want," she said in Spanish. "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight." At an afternoon news conference in Los Angeles, Arellano's son, Saul, hid behind Coleman's wife, Emma Lozano, and wiped away tears. Lozano said she is the boy's legal guardian. "He's taking it better than we thought he would," said Lozano, the head of an immigration rights group in Chicago. Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O'Hare International Airport. She was arrested in 2002 at O'Hare and convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August. She sought refuge at the storefront church on Chicago's West Side Aug. 15, 2006. She had not left the church property until deciding to be driven to Los Angeles, Coleman said. As news of her arrest spread Sunday, members of the Chicago church began arriving to pray. "People will be sad about what happened to Elvira," said Catherine Archibald, a member of the congregation and a friend of Elvira's. "But I think it is very important now that we mobilize and push even harder." ------ Associated Press writers Michael Tarm in Chicago and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report. |
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Gold Member Username: SatscannerBeaversbush, Sportsmans P... Great White ... Post Number: 2767 Registered: Nov-06 | Sad,but why should she be rewarded for her illegal actions? It's not fair to those who are waiting and immigrating legally.I'm not surprised by this action . This is the "republican" goverment's answer to Homeland security. Oh well, she can just illegally re-enter the states again,like she has in the past,so no biggy here.I see both sides , from a independant view,but rules are rules/laws and are there for the protection of it's legal citizens. |
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Platinum Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 11176 Registered: Jan-06 | I agree 100% that she should be DEPORTED...she has committed a Federal crime, was arrested and convicted...she should also be charged with "fleeing to elude"....the church issue has no bearing on this matter at all!...and the Mexican authorities and George W should get off their azz and start enforcing US laws, instead of circumventing them and trying to change, costing the taxpayers even more money....yeah build a 700 mile useless fence...how stupid!....which we've already started...  The US citizens are the ones paying for every ILLEGAL immigrant in this country! ...WE have a EXTREMELY HIGH immigration quota now which is already taxing the hell out of us, nevermind the ILLEGALS!...the Mexicans should clean up their own country, so people will want to stay there!...We cannot afford to foot the bill for every person who doesn't like their own homeland! |
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Silver Member Username: Hoosier_daddyPost Number: 111 Registered: Dec-06 | "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! |
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Gold Member Username: Hawaiian_timeKanaka freak... Post Number: 1307 Registered: Apr-06 | I think wouldn't be fair to all the immigrants who came here legally and have become productive citizens if they let her go. Also not fair to all those who have been deported. Like Sat said, she can just sneak back in later. |
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Bronze Member Username: NbnPost Number: 11 Registered: Aug-07 | send the kunt home, what coward hides in a chruch for a year.. proud to say my parents came here legally and sacrificed a lot , the loser illegals don't realize we don't want them not because they are immigrants but because they are ILLEGALS, who benefits america the most, a hard working family that waited 5 - 15 year to come here and sacrificed everything including jobs, money, careers or the lazy mexican who got sick of working and dragged his diseased drunk stinky butt across the desert to hop the fence.. |
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Silver Member Username: Destine0429Quebec Canada Post Number: 253 Registered: Dec-06 | Lmao LK nice pic... |
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Bronze Member Username: Guanajuatos_bestPost Number: 64 Registered: Jul-07 | THANKS FOR YOUR OPINION |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 9370 Registered: Jun-06 | I've posted it many times and it never gets old. Mainly because it's happening right now. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=immigration+by+the +numbers&hl=en |
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Gold Member Username: Hawaiian_timeKanaka freak... Post Number: 1313 Registered: Apr-06 | All people who break any law should be .... umm ... never mind. |
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Silver Member Username: Hoosier_daddyPost Number: 112 Registered: Dec-06 | Even if the law is unjust? Is there never any justification? Would you beat the crap or kill someone who murdered your child? Would you steal food to feed your kid? |
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Gold Member Username: Hawaiian_timeKanaka freak... Post Number: 1317 Registered: Apr-06 | Should I be busted for tearing the label off of a mattress? Of course there are tons of stupid laws. One of um is that you may not alter your FTA unit to enable it to illegally receive encrypted satellite signals. That was my joke because almost everyone here ... well you know. |
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Platinum Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 11243 Registered: Jan-06 | whats your point? |
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Silver Member Username: Hoosier_daddyPost Number: 113 Registered: Dec-06 | response to this post.. All people who break any law should be .... umm ... never mind. |
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Silver Member Username: Hoosier_daddyPost Number: 114 Registered: Dec-06 | also how would/could you stop people crossing the border from mexico? Also they take the jobs that the fat dumb and happy unemployed "True American" would never lower themselves to do... |
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Bronze Member Username: SlanteyedpschoPost Number: 15 Registered: Aug-07 | i know carter sucks camels and dog and cow and pig ! |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 9437 Registered: Jun-06 | "Also they take the jobs that the fat dumb and happy unemployed "True American" would never lower themselves to do.." I cut my own grass, wash my own truck, clean my own house, pay my own taxes, actually pay into the health care system, and do believe America is a melting pot. The pot is just running over, is my point. The ones I have a problem with are the ones who work here "under the radar" for a few years just long enough to save a small fortune and take all those American dollars out of our economy and back to their homeland where they live like kings. They leech and leech and eventually abandon the "house" that fed them and lined their pockets. How can any country protect itself if it can't control and regulate the numbers fleeing into this country? A ship is only so big and can only take on so many passengers and eventually we all will be as bad off as the ones dying to get in. The key is to address the problems where they are created. What happens when too many birds land on the same branch of a tree on an island? Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish........ |
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Gold Member Username: SatscannerBeaversbush, Sportsmans P... Great White ... Post Number: 2805 Registered: Nov-06 | Here's a anology: one single key morph, and this forum is flooded with newbs looking for help. Same as ppl flooding a country looking for work and a place to live, eat ,medical attention etc.It can overload the ability of ppl and resources to accomadate them. Not withstanding the cultual differences and problems that may arise.  |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 9447 Registered: Jun-06 | I remember a joke once told maybe here. A man has a refrigerator that works who just needs to get rid of it. He puts it out on the curb with a sign on it saying "works, free". Nobody bites. The man has an idea. He changes the sign to read "works, only $50." The very next day it was stolen. |
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Bronze Member Username: Jwl1Post Number: 49 Registered: May-06 | You said: Also they take the jobs that the fat dumb and happy unemployed "True American" would never lower themselves to do... My response: My theory is that the reason these jobs are so low in pay and undesirable is because the illegals will do them for nothing or next to nothing. Therefore, if these people were not here or willing to do them, they would have to pay the Americans a decent price to do the work, or it wouldn't get done, and they wouldn't have a business. |
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