Thread: Where is Elvira's 8 year old kid?

I also see the trap. We need to get that "anchor baby law" stopped.
She had the choice to abandon her son or take him with her or atleast have him sent to her!
This is awful close to the SPP meeting.

Yes, the guardian is Emma Lozana (o).......

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/MyFox/page ... cale=EN-US

She is in this video, and it gives her name and says she is the guardian.

Thank you. She abandoned her child for political showmanship.
W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Thank you. She abandoned her child for political showmanship.
W

Absolutely!!!!

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:57 am Post subject:

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Romar wrote: 1m ago
GOOD CATCH!!!

anonymous wrote: 14m ago
Somethings not right here. Her son is 8 and this is 2007, meaning he was born in 1998 or 1999. She was deported in 1997 and said she caim back in 2000, meaning she was in Mexico when her son was born. Remind me how he is a US citizen again?

this was posted on another forum here. makes me go hummmm!

Here's what CNN had to say this morning:


Immigration activist arrested after year in church

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- An illegal immigrant who stayed in an Illinois church for a year to avoid separation from her 8-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was arrested Sunday and was being processed for deportation.

Elvira Arellano, who arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday after leaving her sanctuary to campaign for immigration reform, was arrested around 1:30 p.m. outside Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church where she had been speaking to reporters, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist, the Chicago, Illinois, church.

Arellano was "being processed for removal to Mexico based upon a deportation order originally issued by a federal immigration judge in 1997," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a news release.

Immigration activists promised protests and vigils to support her.

"We are sad, but at the same time we are angry," said Javier Rodriguez, a Chicago immigration activist who worked with her. "How dare they arrest this woman?"

Anti-illegal immigrant groups said the arrest was long overdue.

"Just because the woman has gone public and made an issue of the fact that she is defying law doesn't mean the government doesn't have to do its job," said Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors limits on immigration.

Arellano, 32, has become a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy. She had said Saturday she was not afraid of being taken into custody by immigration agents.

"From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want," she said in Spanish. "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight."

At an afternoon news conference in Los Angeles, Arellano's son, Saul, hid behind Coleman's wife, Emma Lozano, and wiped away tears. Lozano said she is the boy's legal guardian.

"He's taking it better than we thought he would," said Lozano, the head of an immigration rights group in Chicago.

Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O'Hare International Airport.

She was arrested in 2002 at O'Hare and convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August.

She sought refuge at the storefront church on Chicago's West Side August 15, 2006. She had not left the church property until deciding to be driven to Los Angeles, Coleman said.

As news of her arrest spread Sunday, members of the Chicago church began arriving to pray.

"People will be sad about what happened to Elvira," said Catherine Archibald, a member of the congregation and a friend of Elvira's. "But I think it is very important now that we mobilize and push even harder."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/19/imm...ef=mpstoryview

I'm extremely disappointed that Elvira didn't go to prison! Deportation is not a punishment. She committed a felony and should have suffered the appropriate consequences for her crimes. IMO, she should have served 2-3 years behind bars before deportation. We sent the wrong message to illegals that have been previously deported. Why wouldn't they come back if they think all we're going to do is deport them again? Deportation doesn't break the illegal immigrant cycle, and it certainly doesn't stop SSN fraud.

Thank you for this help.

Does anyone know anything about who this kids father is? Where is his daddy?

W

William wrote:

Does anyone know anything about who this kids father is? Where is his daddy?

The child had a sire, but no daddy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Arellano

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Elvira Arellano
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Elvira Arellano (born 1975) is a Mexican citizen from San Miguel Curahuango, Mexico, famous for living illegally in the United States. Facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arellano took sanctuary in the Adalberto United Methodist Church on Division Street in Chicago in August 2006. On August 19, 2007, having traveled to California to make appearances, Arellano was arrested by U.S. authorities outside of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los Angeles. [1] She is the president of La Familia Latina Unida (United Latino Family), a group that lobbies for families that could be split by deportation. [2]


Arellano entered the United States illegally in 1997[3], was apprehended and deported back to Mexico by the United States government[4]. She returned within days and lived illegally for three years in Oregon[1]. In 1999, she gave birth to Saul Arellano whose father remains unnamed by his mother. Saul is a United States citizen. In 2000, Arellano moved to Chicago and worked as a cleaning woman at O'Hare International Airport[4]. In 2002, following a post-September 11 security sweep, she was arrested and convicted of using a false Social Security number to obtain employment and was sentenced to three years probation. [4] Arellano was ordered to appear before immigration authorities on August 15, 2006. [1] Instead, on that date, she took refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist church in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago to avoid arrest and deportation.

On November 14, 2006, in Mexico City, Saul Arellano appeared before the Congress of Mexico [5]. The Mexican lawmakers passed a resolution to urge the United States government to suspend the deportation of Arellano and other parents of children who are United States citizens.

She was arrested on August 19, 2007 in Los Angeles. [6] [7][8] [9] [10] [11]

Within hours of her arrest Arellano was repatriated to Mexico by U.S. federal agents in compliance with an existing deportation order. She was accompanied to the Mexican border by an official of the Mexican consulate in San Diego, California, as well as by agents of the U.S. government.

She is a Spanish speaker and gives interviews with the assistance of a translator.


Impact
Arellano and her supporters assert that to deport her would be to violate the rights of her son Saul, a United States citizen, as he would be forced to be deported with her.[6] Critics of Arellano counter that she is exploiting her son in order to remain in the United States.[6] Latino advocates have highlighted this case as one of "civil rights".[12] Arellano's "right" of sanctuary and her right to stay in the United States has been taken up by civil rights groups such as National Alliance for Immigrants' Rights, NCLR, LULAC, among others.[12] [13] In support, La Placita, a historic Los Angeles church, declared itself a sanctuary for any undocumented immigrant facing deportation, something it did during the 1980s for the first refugees from war-ridden Guatemala and El Salvador who escaped to California. [12]

The U.S. government's position is that Arellano is free to take Saul with her to Mexico in order to keep her family together.[1]

On May 3, 2007, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), introduced H.R. 2182, which would grant legal immigrant status, with the possibility of applying for permanent residence status, to Arellano as well as 33 other people.[14] The bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary and (as of May 9th, 2007) has yet to move out of the committee.