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.
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"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.
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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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” The United States government being brought to their knees by an illegal felon!!!”
Illegal felons get a free ride. We Americans go straight to jail for the same offence!
ICE does not want another Elian Gonzalez picture session.
Remember the people being teagassed and of course that infamous closet picture.
Why is she going to LA? I thought she was going to testify in DC.
L.A. is the biggest sanctuary city in the USA, she'll be right at home here. The Mexican mayor will probably throw a fiesta for her.
I’m sure felons can and do charter planes everyday. The FBO doesn’t run a background check on me when I make reservations.
(I’m not a felon nor do I have any open warrants)
A leach and an arrogant invader.
On illegal immigration, do you think President Bush needs the Rats help to look bad.
LOL
Actually, I think she could have been arrested anytime during the past year. Is church sanctuary written into our laws? I think this is more a case pf PR and fear of public reaction than a literal, legal sanctuary.
If I broke the law over and over, they would throw my sorry butt in jail, they would not care about my 3 kids. Yet this obnoxious woman is flaunting our laws in our face. With her "You can't touch me attitude", she has stated that she will incite an uprising. Once they let her get to LA it's all over and she won. We're screwed.
A rather Communist group. Coleman was a staunch Communist activist here in Chicago and the press won’t mention it.
At Christmas we have NORAD to track Santa Claus!
http://www.noradsanta.org/index.php
NOW you have ELVIRAD to track fugitive ELVIRA!!
http://www.illinoisminuteman.com/Elvira.htm
El Mayor del Aztlan will probably drive to the border to welcome her - maybe that's when they ought to be busted.
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