Posted on 08/18/2007 1:01:10 AM PDT by Racehorse
An illegal immigrant who took refuge in a church for more than a year to avoid deportation has left the sanctuary to attend an immigration rights rally in Los Angeles, her friend said Friday.
Elvira Arellano left the church for the first time since seeking sanctuary there Aug. 15, 2006, and was traveling to California by car Friday, Emma Lozano, head of immigration rights group Centro Sin Fronteras, said from Los Angeles.
Arellano is accompanied by people close to her, Lozano said, including the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church where she and her son have lived for more than a year.
[. . .]
"She's not alone and she's got a lot of company and on her way," Lozano said Friday night. "And she'll be here tomorrow, so we're really looking forward to that."
The Los Angeles march is set for Saturday morning. Arellano plans a press conference at La Placita, which Lozano described as a prominent Catholic church.
A message seeking comment was left late Friday night with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
[. . .]
The 32-year-old has since become an international symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy, praised for her steadfastness and criticized as a scofflaw.
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Rather an arrogant group, I think.
Arrogant maybe but probably right! How loud do you think the screams will be if they are stopped....Probably set up by the dems to make Bush look bad.....
Time to divert that car and its passengers southward...
On illegal immigration, do you think President Bush needs the Rats help to look bad.
Regards
Very good point..LOL
That’s right. She can be arrested on a variety of charges.
Sic that bull dike Lindsey Graham on her, he needs to redeem himself.
why hasn’t she been arrested and her ass kicked out of the US.....
can’t the US uphold the laws of the nation????
Why the hell wasn’t she arrested the minute she stepped out of the church!!!! The United States government being brought to their knees by an illegal felon!!! Every time she opens her mouth she is spitting in our faces and LE doesn’t have the balls to arrest here!
The perpetrator appears to be surrounded and enveloped by a cordon of well-selected protectors on her motor trip to L.A.....including a United Methodist minister.
There's no doubt in my mind that they are hoping for an incident along the way.....some kind of blocking the car, searching the vehicle and her entourage, an arrest, whatever. If they aren't hoping for an incident, she would have flown to L.A.
State troopers in some god-forsaken desert in a western state should put up a roadblock and arrest her on the spot......and throw her and the arrogant minister in an uncomfortable local hoosegow till she's deported.
Leni
Leni
Arellano the Arrogant
Sanctuary is traditional from the Middle Ages?
So is the Plague...
I wonder what kind of ID he used when boarding the plane to fly there.
“I think this cross-country trip is carefully planned, manipulated and being executed for maximum PR purposes....If they aren’t hoping for an incident, she would have flown to L.A.”
She cant get on a plane... she’s a known felon on the run..
other than that I agree with you ..they want an incident..
ping
I hope they pull them all over and arrest them on the spot, and send her ass back to Mexico. If the Dem’s and the media start beating up Bush if this happens, all Bush needs to do is remind them how Janet Reno sent that Gonzalez kid back to Cuba.
LOL!
He stinks to high heaven because of his own stubborn love for illegal aliens, slave labor, globalism...and Mehico, as he continues to give America the middle finger.
The RATS have given Bush a free ride on illegals, as they will get their welfare vote : )
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