Posted on 08/29/2007 5:45:53 AM PDT by Crazieman
MEXICO CITY: The recently deported illegal migrant and activist who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year, has asked the Mexico's president to appoint her "peace and justice" ambassador so she can return to the United States.
Elvira Arellano, 32, who sought refuge to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born, 8-year-old son, was arrested and sent back to Mexico on Aug. 19 after traveling to Los Angeles to attend a rally for the overhaul of U.S. immigration laws. Her son stayed in the United States.
"What I'm asking for is a diplomatic visa so that I can be an ambassador for peace and justice because I'm not a terrorist and the United States can't continue treating undocumented migrants as terrorists," Arellano told reporters after meeting with President Felipe Calderon at the presidential residence, Los Pinos.
In a news release, the president's office said Arellano asked the Mexican government to help her get a visa so she can enter the United States but it did not mention Arellano's request for a diplomatic appointment.
Calderon asked Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa to "look into the situation that Mrs. Arellano and her son face and to approach U.S. authorities so that we can respond to (her) request," it said.
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Although she is determined to stay in this country, she never in all these years learned to speak English. According to Mexican law, her son Saul (assuming it is her son) is a Mexican citizen. While Mexico howls and whines about her being deported, the Mexican laws are much stricter about illegal aliens. Mexico is anxious to get rid of her and the many deviants and criminals and have us take care of them.
The kid did go to Mexico when she was recently deported and living in Tijuana. As an American, he doesn't need a passport to travel in US/Mexico border regions or the Baja peninsula. Furthermore, he's also a Mexican by birth, since his mother is a Mexican. So really he doesn't need a passport at all in order to travel to Mexico.
Ella estaba hablando en frances? en Mejico? Elle parlait en français, non espagnol? Pourquoi? Que continue là? Y que nos pasa?
But, given the evidence in post 60, she apparently speaks French.
Will anyone in our government have the guts to say NO, or will the USA again be forced to bow to Mexico?
Better idea . . .just have the kid returned to the Mom in Mexico. Mom and son reunited, as it should be. Mom lives in country of citizenship, as it should be.
Everyone’s happy, si?
Children of Mexican citizens have automatic Mexican citizenship.
I believe he could have gone with her quite easily.
I think she's a "test case" for the illegal immigration lobby to play on the sympathy of America.
Nothing will be done about churches harboring illegals. Many Catholic churches are offering sanctuary. None of them have any respect for our laws, and we have a president, congress, state officials and local officials who won't enforce those laws.
Unfortunate that some churches are preaching breaking of laws.
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