Elvira Arellano Deported

A symbol for the undocumented is sent to Mexico

NAM, News Digest, Peter Micek, Photos by Chris Martinez/La Opinión, Posted: Aug 21, 2007

LOS ANGELES – Immigrant activist Elvira Arellano is on Mexican soil, reports Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión. Arellano, who had been resisting deportation for more than a year, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) around 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, in downtown Los Angeles. That night, ICE delivered her to Mexican immigration authorities in Tijuana, La Opinión reports.

“Not even deporting me will silence me,” Arellano told La Opinión in an exclusive interview Monday. “If it took my arrest to unite the community, community leaders and religious leaders, to fight all together, I am happy to have paid that price because I know the community is rising.”

Originally from Michoacan, Mexico, Arellano, 32, spent more than a year in sanctuary in a Chicago church. She traveled to California last weekend to begin a cross-country caravan for immigration reform. She was leaving a church service en route to San Jose, Calif., La Opinión reports, when various vehicles detained the caravan and some 15 officers made the arrest.

Activist Emma Lozano told the newspaper that Arellano remained calm and tried to pacify her son, Saul, 8, a U.S. citizen, who was present during the arrest. Saul was left in Lozano’s care. He starts school in Chicago on Sept. 3, according to La Opinión, though whether he will remain in the country permanently is uncertain.

On Monday, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision reported various groups were organizing to protest the “cowardly” deportation of one of the immigration reform movement’s most visible faces. They were to hold a vigil Monday night, Javier Rodríguez, leader of the March 25 Coalition in Los Angeles told Univision, and would spend the day planning protests, “in indignation at the cowardly arrest and expedited deportation that she fell victim to.”

however, just an isolated case to gain media attention, and make people believe this government is doing something real about this issue.
i can imagine some people jumping in one leg because they would think Oh!!! the goverment is working.
it's sad because her son is separated from her, but this is just a simple tool to keep people minds busy while other bigger issues are at stake.

VIVA LA RAZA!!!

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She was an illegal alien!!!!!!!
Ship them all back!!!
Mexico and all over.
If your here illegal you can leave to!!!

come and look for me if you will

wouldnt waist my time!!!!
im just waiting for open season!!!!

urs is open my friend
watch out

Weve been waiting for the day!!!!!!
I guess you could say its been to long comeing!
This is my country!!Not someone who jumps over a fence!!
Not someone who sneaks in on a boat!!!
This is my F!CKIN country!!!!!
Thats why its called America!!!!!!!
Not something else..

well if i think we should have the same

immigration policy as the county

an illegal comes from

IT'S THE LAW

1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, and all government business will be conducted in our language.
2. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote, no matter how long they are here.
3. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.
4. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, nor any other government assistance programs.
5. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
6. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT
options will be restricted. You are not allowed to own waterfront property.
That property is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
7. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no "badmouthing" our president or his policies. If you do you will be sent home.
8. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.

Harsh, you say ?...

The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of

" MEXICO"
There ya go!!

paper law = toilet law
show me some enforcement

Thats what were waiting for!!!!
I pray for the day.

Ok but there are 12 million illegal aliens in this country, we would go bankrupt trying to deport them all...I say, make them obtain citizenship and PAY TAXES!! Oh and while they are at it deny them food stamps and other government aid gee whiz, did you know they can get food stamps without showing any documentation? Now that is wrong and that is why they keep coming over!

Thats what they talked about today!!!
more fenceing harsher punishment
and jail!!!!
I wish they would have went farther!!!

thanxs for showing that you are smart person
thanxs to you i have faith in North America

Yes it sucks!!!!
there was tons of them here till they all just left????????????
huh????
Im still wondering why

doesn't he really sound like the voice of america!!!



arn't ya all so proud to haver a voice like his representing what you all stand for??

what does it show the world???


the truth about patriots... egocentric , arrogant, illiterate idiots....

americans are a mixed breed but i swear it's a degenerative down sliding evolution...


Jax!!!! git yer family outta there !!!!

and nuke the place

One down 20,000,000 to go

^^

LOL!

u r so hopeless gardenforge