Posted on 08/19/2007 3:35:13 PM PDT by republican4ever
Elvira Arellano, the illegal who had been living in a church ("sanctuary") for a year was arrested in Chicago 45 minutes ago and is in Immigration custody.
FNC reported it about 20 minutes ago
Adios to her and the kid that shilled for her.
Let's hope Bush doesn't hear about the injustice done to her and her whelp and grant them a pardon and a visa.
She was seditious even our globalist lackys had to do something about her.
Like Waco?
She was able to travel across the country "undocumented"? (oops, I mean illegally)
Well ...that's a federal crime right there....crossing state borders while in undocumented/illegal status.
bump
“Now that they have arrested her, hopefully she’ll be on the next flight out so that she can’t post bail and be back out on US streets protesting.”
I believe she was deported in 1996 (for using false SS documents), and she came back very quickly...residing in Oregon and then she had here child in 2000. She’ll likely come back.
Workplace enforcement...barrier...just a few billion invested, and a mandate that it’s used. Really not that complicated.
Then this will stop. Till then it’s continual to some degree.
She gave the INS and America the finger, right out of the Communist Manifesto. They had to arrest her.
Ah, Cassandra Peterson......miss her show.
Matchbook cover clergyman with a storefront church.
Michael M. Bates’s blog
Chicago Tribune Silent on Illegal Immigration Activist’s History
By Michael M. Bates | August 16, 2006 - 11:13 ET
On the Chicago Tribune’s front page today is the story of an illegal immigrant who’s taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid deportation. The headline is “Act of faith, defiance” and the article includes a color photo of the woman and her son. Yesterday’s Tribune coverage on the event noted: “The church’s pastor, the Rev. Walter Coleman, said his congregation decided to offer Arellano refuge after praying about her plight.. . . ‘She represents the voice of the undocumented, and we think it’s our obligation, our responsibility, to make a stage for that voice to be heard,’ he said.”
Walter Coleman? Could that be Walter “Slim” Coleman, a longtime left wing activist? Yes, it is.
And what’s interesting is the Tribune makes no mention of the Reverend’s extensive background, much of it documented by the Tribune over the years.
A self-described community organizer, Slim was on the board of a group getting Federal money back in the 70s to provide free lunches to hundreds of poor children each day. Tribune writer Jeff Lyon reported in August of 1979 that an investigation disclosed the real participation was about 70 children a day.
This experience no doubt helped Coleman in becoming a key adviser to Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington. A Tribune piece in August of 1984 carried the charges of an alderman that Chicago “agreed to give $70,000 to a health clinic operated by the Heart of Uptown Coalition headed by Slim Coleman, a Washington supporter.”
The following year Slim, then identifying himself as a journalist, was provoked by a Washington opponent and leaped to the City Council floor screaming “I’m going to get you” at the alderman. The Tribune’s Robert Davis reported in the June 14, 1985 edition: “Published reports have said the mayor often seeks Coleman’s advice, particularly on dispensing federal funds for neighborhood and community development. There also have been published reports that Coleman, after years of criticizing the political use of government money, has told community organization leaders that to dip into the federal trough, they would have to do political things like picket the homes (of Washington’s opponents.)”
According to Tribune columnists Kathy O’Malley and Hanke Gratteau in December of 1986: “Leave it to Slim Coleman to throw the first below-the-belt punch of Campaign ‘87. The Uptown activist, who uses his community newspaper to defend his good chum Mayor Harold Washington, is spreading the word that he’s sitting on a dossier of photos, a sort of `”This is Your Life`” for (another) mayoral hopeful.”
After Mayor Washington’s death, the Tribune gave editorial advice to his successor: “People like Slim Coleman and Ald. Helen Shiller were making their influence felt during Mr. Washington`s second term; the new mayor should sweep them out of City Hall’s fifth floor and purge city policy of their loony leftist ideas.”
In 1990 the newspaper reported on the first Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference. Wrote author Jessica Seigel: “’Everyone is dissolving,’ said Uptown activist Slim Coleman at the Chicago conference Sunday. ‘Every time I meet someone, they’re no longer a Marxist-Leninist this or that.’”
In January of 1991, the Tribune covered an antiwar demonstration and noted the presence of Coleman, identified as “a longtime advocate of affordable housing and other causes.”
2004 found Slim condemning the abuse at Abu Ghraib and the Tribune reported: “Preaching at St. Adalberto United Methodist Church, a Hispanic storefront parish on Chicago’s South Side, Rev. Walter ‘Slim’ Coleman told his small congregation that the number of photographs—estimated at 1,500—shows the abuse was a policy, not an aberration in the war. ‘Rumsfeld said it was just a few rotten apples, not the policy of the government,’ Coleman said in a fire-and-brimstone sermon.”
The Most Reverend Coleman has quite a record, one that the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets should make some mention of in reporting his current activities. They don’t need to provide extensive details, but they should give their audience a clue.
You got that right. I should have put “clergymen” in quotes. I forgot that not everybody understands that just because they call themselves minister or priest that doesn’t mean they truly know Jesus or follow His teachings. For example, Jesus taught us to obey all the laws of the land(including immigration,) and to be very afraid of the police who enforce those laws. The only exceptions are laws in direct contradiction to G-D’s word, i.e. renouncing one’s faith or providing instruments for evil like abortifacts, etc.
Funny how labels imply so much more than the truth. I should know....I’m a lawyer, albeit I’m sick and retired from practice. My potential for harm is severely limited. Thank G-D.....S
She’s out! She was deported through San Ysidro a few minutes ago!
source?!! Wow. Fast! 20 million more to go.
Source: phone call to the newsroom (I work at a newspaper!)
See:
Activist arrested in L.A. — chicagotribune.com
http://tinyurl.com/2vfdn2
ICE Headquarters, Director, Office of Detention and Removal Operations
801 I St, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20536
Phone: 202-305-2734
2) Daily peace vigil at the Los Angeles ICE office until Elvira Arellano’s safe release.
ICE Field Office, Los Angeles
300 North Los Angeles St., Room 7631A
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-830-7911
I saw this woman on a Fox video clip this a.m. and she was speaking Spanish. She sat inside a church for one solid year, and she couldn’t be bothered to learn English? That sort of arrogance leaves me cold. Adios to her and the kid that shilled for her.
Specifically, she lived for a year in the storefront Adalberto United Methodist Church; I doubt any English was spoken there.
Had it been a Catholic church, the Jesuits would've forced Elvira to learn Latin. But they would also have kicked her out after the first month or so.
Under the old Catholic "sanctuary" rule, a felon taking the benefit of sanctuary was afforded protection from thirty to forty days, after which he had to leave the kingdom and take an oath not to return without the king's leave. Violation of this oath was punishable by excommunication.
Were the "sanctuary cities" to follow that standard, they wouldn't be nearly as objectionable!
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