Illegal immigrant to leave church haven

Chicago Tribune ^ | 15 August 2007 | Antonio Olivo

[Racehorse]

Elvira Arellano, the illegal Mexican immigrant who has avoided deportation for a year by taking refuge inside a Humboldt Park church, said today she plans to leave her sanctuary to participate in a new push for immigration reform in Washington.

At a news conference at the West Side church where she has been living for exactly a year, Arellano said she intends to use her status as a figurehead for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to leverage support for more lenient legislative reforms.

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It was not immediately clear when she would leave the church. She said today she would be on the Washington Mall for a prayer and fasting vigil Sept. 12. Speaking in Spanish and English, she called for a national economic boycott on that day to help bring attention to the plight of illegal immigrants.

[upchuck]

” BTW, I understand the separation of church and state, but where the the church get the right to harbor law breakers?”

The church and this ILLEGAL ALIEN have the Feds snowed.

IMHO, they are afraid to go after her because of all the bad publicity that would create.

I truly hope, after she has been flipping them the bird for a year, that they’ve grown some cojones and will arrest her once she leaves the church.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!

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Take a look at their hidden agenda: http://www.mexica-movement.org

[Liz]

Take a look at the illegals hidden agenda:

http://www.mexica-movement.org

These illegals are calling for the overthrow of the US government——that is anarchy.

It must be stopped.

[Travis McGee]

Deport her sorry culo.

Inmigrantes ilegales son ladrones criminales.

[metmom]

It’s up to the citizens to push for immigration reform, not illegals. They all need to be send back, except those who should be awaiting exectution for rapes and murders of American citizens. Illegals who commit serious crimes here know they have nothing to worry about. They won’t get the death penalty in order to prevent an international incident and at best, they’re deported and free.

It makes me so angry I could spit.

[metmom]

We have so much while Mexico has so little, they lament. (And this, of course, is entirely America's fault. Or so the story line goes.)

Story is right. We're connected to the same land mass and share a border. The only reason they don't have it better is the corruption of the government and lawlessness and immorality that's allowed to exist in that country.

[metmom]

They should be prosecuted like any entity who engages in illegal activity like this. The members of the church are just as guilty for allowing this to go on. If they didn’t agree with this, they’d be speaking up.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Story is right. We're connected to the same land mass and share a border. The only reason they don't have it better is the corruption of the government and lawlessness and immorality that's allowed to exist in that country.

I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding you or vice-versa. My point was that the story line has it that it is entirely America's fault that the US is economically developed, whereas Mexico is an economic basket case. In other words, we should be ashamed; we are exploiters, and they are the victims.

I just don't buy that.

I take it that you do not, either. As you correctly pointed out, Mexico, too, could be prosperous, except for rempant corruption and a culture that seems to tolerate this sad state of affairs. And that is hardly America's fault.

[metmom]

I meant story as in something not true. The *story line* from the libs is....

Yes, it is a story.

None of it is America’s fault. I’m sick of us getting blamed for what’s wrong with the rest of the world. This country started from nothing and all the legal immigrants built it up to where it is today, through hard work and moral character. Any other country can do the same, if it so chooses. Many countries are rich in natural resources and have plenty to offer for trade and money making potential. If we can do it, they can do it, too.

You got it right.