Thread: Deported immigrant activist asks for US asylum

Deported immigrant activist asks for US asylum

Updated 3:33 pm, Tuesday, March 18, 2014

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican immigrant rights advocate who gained international attention in 2007 when she was deported from the United States has presented herself to U.S. border inspectors and asked for asylum as part of a protest to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations.

Elvira Arellano and another 20 Mexican and Central American migrants crossed Tuesday into the United States from the border city of Tijuana.

Arellano, 38, led the fourth such group to try to enter the U.S. at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego and ask for asylum in the last nine days.

Arellano says she wants asylum because she has received threats in Mexico because of her activism and because she wants a better future for her U.S.-born son.

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Immigration Advocate Deported To Mexico In 2007 Illegally Crosses U.S. Border, Asks For Sanctuary

Published March 19, 2014


Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano waits to enter into the United States where she planned to ask for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Arellano and another 20 Mexican and Central American migrants crossed into the United States from the border city of Tijuana as part of a protest to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – A Mexican immigrant rights advocate who gained international attention when she took refuge in a Chicago church before being deported asked Tuesday for refuge in the United States on humanitarian grounds.

Elvira Arellano crossed into the United States with her U.S.-born teenage and 4-year-old sons along with a group of Mexican and Central American migrants from the border city of Tijuana, many of them deported mothers with U.S.-born children.

"I am asking that they let me in the United States legally on humanitarian grounds, because I am a defender of human rights in Mexico and I've received kidnapping and violence threats," Arellano said before entering the U.S. "But more importantly, because they have separated my son from his chance to have a good upbringing."

Arellano, 38, was deported to Mexico in 2007 after seeking sanctuary at a Chicago church for a year. She was deported without her son, who eventually reunited with her in Mexico.

Organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, this was fourth such group to enter the U.S. at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego in the last nine days, as part of protests to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations.

The migrants have asked for asylum or visas on humanitarian grounds because they say they have been threatened by criminals or extorted by organized crime.

"I know I'm risking my freedom and being with my children because I could go to prison," Arellano said before crossing. "But I will fight to be with my children"

After Arellano was deported to Tijuana, she founded a home for deported migrants and began speaking publicly about the complex reality of migrant families and how deportations are making their lives more difficult.

President Barack "Obama has to stop the deportations and allow us to be with our families," she said.

Unlike similar protests last year in Arizona and Texas, many of those crossing into California are not "dreamers" — young adults who came to the U.S. as children. Like Arellano, they are parents who are seeking to return to the U.S. without legal documents, accompanied by their U.S. citizen children.

At least two families who have crossed as part of the protests were notified by U.S. authorities that the children would be turned over to a child welfare agency if they were unwilling or unable to immediately designate a responsible adult to take them.

Javier Galvan, 38, said he got a call Sunday in Jacksonville, Florida, after his wife and two children crossed into the U.S. that he had 48 hours to pick up his 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son — both U.S. citizens —or they would be placed in child protective services. Their mother, Cecilia Cortes, was held separately in a detention center after claiming asylum. The family returned to Michoacan state in Mexico to visit an ailing relative in 2011.

"We were really surprised," said Galvan, who claimed asylum last year in the Texas protest and was released pending the outcome of his case. "The children need their mother."

The children were picked up Monday at a shelter by a relative who drove from San Francisco.

Customs and Border Protection didn't immediately respond to questions about the children with U.S. citizenship.

An official at the Mexican consulate in San Diego who spoke on condition of anonymity because the cases are considered private confirmed that U.S. citizen children are being turned over to child welfare authorities. The official didn't know how many.

Rocio Hernandez, an organizer for the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, said that 14 U.S. children had been separated from their parents and put in shelters before Sunday.

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Immigration activist Elvira Arellano is released in US 7 years after taking refuge in church

• Article by: Associated Press
• Updated: March 20, 2014 - 6:15 PM

SAN DIEGO — A Mexican woman who received widespread attention for taking refuge in a Chicago church before she was deported seven years ago is back in the United States, this time with permission.

Elvira Arellano says she was released from custody in San Diego on Thursday, two days after she sought permission to entry the U.S. without legal documents. She was released with her 5-month-old daughter, who was born in Mexico.

Arellano and about 150 others have sought to enter the country without legal documents at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry since the beginning of last week. Many have asked for asylum or humanitarian relief.

U.S. authorities often release asylum applicants from custody, pending the outcome of their cases before immigration judges.

Arellano says she plans to return to Chicago.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/251324791.html

Geez, all the pressure that was put on the Bush administration to deport her and now she's back! I guess it's true, having an American born child is a "get out of jail free" card for illegal aliens.

John Boehner is looking to hire some more consultants. She ought to hook up with him.

She has really used her son as a chit for her own ambitions.

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Originally Posted by Jean

Elvira Arellano crossed into the United States with her U.S.-born teenage and 4-year-old sons along with a group of Mexican and Central American migrants from the border city of Tijuana, many of them deported mothers with U.S.-born children.

After Arellano was deported to Tijuana, she founded a home for deported migrants and began speaking publicly about the complex reality of migrant families and how deportations are making their lives more difficult.

Is there an illegal alien anywhere who does not have a sob story?

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Activist Elvira Arellano Paroled After Illegally Entering Country In Immigration Protest

By Allison Geller, Fri, March 21, 2014

Mexican immigrant and rights activist Elvira Arellano has been granted parole by U.S. immigration authorities after reentering the country in an act of protest. Arellano was deported after years of living in the country illegally, including a year spent with her son in a Chicago church.
Arellano gained worldwide attention when she sought sanctuary in a Chicago church in 2006. Immigration officials had been trying to send Arellano back to her native Mexico since 2002, when she was caught in an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement sweep of Chicago O’Hare Airport, where she cleaned planes. In 2006, she was named Time Magazine's “Person of The Year.”

She returned to her hometown of San Miguel Curahuango Maravatio in the state of Michoacán in 2007, where she was deported without her American-born son. Continuing her activism work, Arellano became not only an advocate for immigration reform with global reach, but also a voice for the rights of immigrants from Central America traveling through Mexico to reach the United States.

Arellano returned to the U.S. illegally this week with her Mexican-born 5-month-old son and 20 other immigrants in an act of protest against immigration policy. Most of the protesters were like Arellano — parents with young children, and not “dreamers” as in previous border-crossing protests.
Arellano requested asylum Tuesday.

"I am requesting asylum in the United States on humanitarian grounds, because I am a defender of human rights in Mexico and I have received kidnapping and violence threats," Arellano said before entering the U.S. "But more importantly, because they have separated my son for his chance to have a good upbringing."

Arellano was released from ICE custody in San Diego and was paroled Thursday, two days after requesting asylum. It is unclear how many others from the group of 20 were paroled.

An immigration judge will decide Arellano’s case, an ICE spokeswoman told the Associated Press.

"We are pleased to be here with friends who have helped us," Arellano said after her release. "We are going to continue fighting for other fathers and mothers to also be freed."

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"We are going to continue fighting for other fathers and mothers to also be freed."

Freed?

In my opinon, she is a stupid money grubbing cow. I wonder if she has been missing her welfare income.

I hope they gave her a pregnancy test before they gave her AMNESTY
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