"Don't drag me into this. I'm legal!"
Posted on 09/13/2007 7:36:39 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
An 8-year-old boy led 200 chanting, singing immigration activists to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office yesterday armed with a letter begging the California Democrat to move quickly to stop deportations. Saul Arellano, the son of recently deported illegal alien Elvira Arellano, has emerged as a leading icon in the immigration movement. Miss Arellano had promised to come to the District yesterday for an immigration-reform prayer vigil before being sent back to Mexico on Aug. 19.
But Saul..showed up in her place. Accompanied by several TV cameras and a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, he marched through the halls of the Cannon House Office Building to reach Mrs. Pelosi's quarters...
Once at the speaker's office, Saul ran into a problem: Mrs. Pelosi's office already was occupied by about 40 antiwar protesters who weren't budging. The bewildered child stopped in his tracks while immigration activists clustered around him. A security guard inside the speaker's office shut the door.
The immigration activists began shouting "Born in the USA," and, in Spanish, "We feel Elvira is present."...
Meanwhile, Emma Lozano, a Chicago activist with Latino Families United, had produced a roll of Scotch tape and affixed the letter — along with a Spanish translation — to the door...
It's not clear whether Mrs. Pelosi will actually see the letter...an aide removed it from the door. Drew Hammil, a Pelosi spokeswoman, said the speaker was in Portland, Ore., yesterday.
Mrs. Lozano said Saul will be returning to Mexico today, where he will attend school and live with his mother...
At a press conference yesterday, which was organized by Chicago-based Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders), Miss Arellano was compared to civil rights activists such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, as well as slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman...
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I thought that she was a Mexican Catholic.
The child can easily be reunited with the mother - GO TO MEXICO. Problem solved.
LOL, you can't make this stuff up.
Why do you say Saul’s father is a priest? I don’t understand what you base that assertion on; do you have information?
The left care nothing about anyone else and will use anyone and anything to further their anti American agenda. Just remember what they did to the Gonzales child.
We will have to get permission from the Mexican Government.
When I saw the little brat he was crying and screaming and fighting his handlers.
Ditto to that !!!!!
You know, you would think Stretch would finally get tired of letting her office get overrun by these creeps everyday.
Guess not!
I don't think so either. Aliens are citizens of another country and subject to the jurisdiction thereof even though they are out of country. Neither the mother nor the child are citizens of the U.S. or subject to the jursidction thereof until they go through the line, sign the papers and take the oath.
You can hardly blame the kid, he obviously has rotten parents.
If I had a choice of having my son living with me in mexico, or with relatives and attending school in the United States, I think I would be hard-pressed to choose the former, especially if I was an ignorant mexican mother.
In reality I could home-school my kid, so he wouldn’t have to go to mexican schools.
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It is possible that from a entry level employee and a janitorial area employee, his mother has tasted the heady heights of fame. This is the same thing that has happened to Cindy Sheehan. Anyone who has worked entry level and could not seemed to get out and upward, will know how hard it is to go back to that.
I expect the mother,Elvira will now have a pretty solid life, even in Mexico. She is a valuable commodity to people with an agenda.
Same as sweet Cindy Sheehan. She can never go back.
Does this reporter think we are idiots? 8 year olds don't lead adults ANYWHERE. 8 year olds are put in front as mascots by unscrupulous exploiters, period.
I read “The Scarlet Letter”.
There, fixed that typo in your post for you.
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