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A California-based immigration reform organization is supporting the decision by the mayor of Simi Valley to bill a church almost $40,000 for harboring an illegal alien to cover the cost for police presence during a protest. For more than a year Mexican national Elvira Arellano made national news as she was holed up inside a Chicago church in order to avoid deportation by immigration authorities. Arellano finally left the church, fled to California, and was deported back to Mexico. Now another illegal, identified only as "Lilliana," has been given sanctuary at United Church of Christ in Simi Valley, California. In...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for city police services during a weekend protest by anti-illegal immigration activists, officials said. Mayor Paul Miller, who called United Church of Christ congregants irresponsible for "harboring an illegal immigrant," told the City Council Monday that he was ready to issue the $39,306 invoice right away. Officials said that the church's public announcement that it would shelter an illegal immigrant provoked protesters to come and create a possible disturbance, which required the police presence. "This City Council has...

Immigration Activists Clash At So. Calif. Church CBS News Interactive: Immigration and Naturalization (AP) SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Dozens of activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son. One immigrant-rights advocate was injured with a chemical spray during Sunday's confrontation at the United Church of Christ, and police were investigating allegations that an opposing protester was responsible, police Capt. John McGinty said. Members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally that drew about 120 protesters and counter-protesters, said...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Dozens of anti-illegal immigration activists faced off against immigrant-rights backers at a rally outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son. One immigrant-rights advocate was injured with a chemical spray during Sunday's confrontation at the United Church of Christ, officials said. Members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally that drew about 120 protesters and counter-protesters, said they had hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana. Liliana is living in the church's former parsonage as part...

Liliana Duenas Allegedly Struck Another Woman With A Bat After Believing She Was Cut Off At A Drive-Through (CBS) COVINA, Calif. -- In an alleged outbreak of road rage, a woman attacked another woman with a baseball bat in a Covina Taco Bell drive-through. The incident took place on Thursday at 700 W. Arrow Highway around 1:30 p.m., according to Covina police Lt. Tim Doonan. Both women, each driving a sport utility vehicle, arrived at the drive-through entrance at about the same time, Doonan told reporters. Liliana Duenas, 24, of Pomona, became very angry after believing that she had...