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  • Elvira Arellano As 'The New Rosa Parks'? How Silly Can Immigration Debate Get?

    08/30/2007 5:20:14 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 39 replies · 929+ views
    IBD ^ | August 30, 2007 | Larry Elder
    Is Elvira Arellano — the recently deported Mexican illegal alien — the new Rosa Parks? Some of her supporters describe her this way. But Arellano's credentials as a "role model," to say the least, fall short. Indeed, even some "immigrant rights activists" find the comparison embarrassing. A check of the Web sites of the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund finds no statement one way or the other concerning Arellano. Rosa Parks, a black woman, was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama — that is, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America. She thus...