Posted on 09/01/2007 8:44:02 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
MEXICO CITY -- The 8-year-old son of deported immigrant activist Elvira Arellano was reunited with her Friday at Mexico City's airport. Arellano said she wants her son, Saul, a U.S. citizen, to go to school in her home state of Michoacan so he can learn Spanish.
Saul, whose first trip to Mexico was in November to ask the Mexican Congress to lobby Washington to stop his mother's deportation, received a Mexican passport from his mother as proof of his dual citizenship. They plan to renew the boy's U.S. passport, something he could not do in the United States in the absence of his mother.
Arellano, 32, who was in the U.S. illegally for several years, took sanctuary at Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church in defiance of a deportation order. She lived there with her son for a year. She left the church in August to attend rallies in Los Angeles and was arrested and deported within hours to Tijuana.
Saul, who traveled from Chicago with Adalberto United's pastor, the Rev. Walter Coleman, had little to say to reporters. His mother said the boy told her that "he wants to keep fighting so I can go back with him to the United States."
Arellano said she wanted her son by her side as she fights for the legalization of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and for the rights of illegal Central American immigrants in Mexico.
"In this battle he was the one who kept me on my feet," Arellano said. "If I want to keep fighting from here, I need him with me."
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His mother said the boy told her that “he wants to keep fighting so I can go back with him to the United States.”
Yes an eight year old thought that up himself. ROTFLMAO!
END ANCHOR BABY BENEFITS!!!! >:-(
Exactly right!
both are products of American Socialist Liberals
I think it looks worse for her to have him with her.Look at WW II.Some of the bravest people were the ones who,for example,were living in London but volunteered their kids to be put on trains destined to parts of the UK that were out of range of the Luftwaffe.Also,Jews who got their kids out of harms way (in various ways) so they'd be out of the Gestapo's reach.
It's like Elian,IMO.His father didn't love him *nearly* enough to insist that he stay in the US rather than being kidnapped to a Fourth World prison camp of a country.
And Castro and Reno sure as hell had no love for him.
I’m still waiting for some inquiring “reporter” to tell us about the father and where he is during all of this.
if the anchor baby travesty was ended....
many more children could be reunited with their parents in their true country of origin!!!!
Of course, Mexico isn't currently being bombed, subject to a Holocaust or ruled by a Communist dictator.
Her son is an American citizen. He will be free to come and go as he pleases.
good he can stay there where he belongs, in mexico with his mother.
by the way where is the father in all of this?
no father in this story, an illegal alien father, mother, an illigitimate child...
sounds like a real problematic situation to me.
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Immigration activist Elvira Arellano stands with and hugs her US-born son Saul, 8, upon his arrival to Mexico at the International Airport in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Arellano, 32, is a recently deported immigrant who spent a year living inside a Chicago church to avoid deportation and separation from her son. Saul is in Mexico to try to renew his US passport. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
I’m sure it wasn’t her idea to bring her son to Mexico, otherwise he would have come with her when she left.
Article states that she wants him to learn spanish? Yeah right, I haven’t heard a word of English out of her mouth!
Also, if she gets made an ambassador, is there any way the US could block her from returning? She is a criminal after all.
"Yeah, Ma, let's keep fighting so you can go back with me to that lousy, racist place."
I wouldn’t be surprised if she were pregnant again!
Being holdup in a Catholic church with a few priests for a year. hmmmm.. She was in LA for a couple hours too... before she got ICE’d.
Good! Shut the gate!! Oh, wait a minute...never mind.
It was a Methodist Church where she was holed up. We Catholics haven’t cornered the market on stupidity, yet, although some in the Church are working on it.
Right.
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