Thread: Arellano "... Made Everything Worse"

Hispanics Say Elvira Arellano "... Made Everything Worse"

Full Article provided by the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Spanish-language radio host Javier Salas said he felt badly for what happened to Arellano. But in leaving the sanctuary of Adalberto United Methodist Church and heading to Los Angeles, it was only a matter of time before she was arrested. "She wasn't down to earth ... She made everything worse."

"I'm not happy that this happened, but it was bound to happen because she was challenging the system," said Salas, the host of the morning-drive talk show La Tremenda on WRTO AM-1200.

By Sunday afternoon, Salas was already on radio talking about the arrest, and callers were weighing in too.

Callers were "saying that she was traveling to Los Angeles and around the United States, she would provoke [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the anti-immigrant groups," he said. "There would be checkpoints everywhere."

Salas questioned why it appeared that mainstream media make Arellano out to be the face of undocumented immigrants, while her actions have exacerbated the animosity toward them.

"She wasn't down to earth," he said, adding that Arellano acted entitled to rights "when there's thousands and thousands of people in the same situation."

"She made everything worse," Salas said. "She's not a face of the immigrants. My family without papers, she doesn't represent them."

Immigrant activists in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities saw Arellano's arrest as inevitable.

http://saveourstate.org/index.php

Indeed, Elvira did more for the anti-illegal immigration movement than she did for the pro-amnesty advocates.

But if it wasn't Elvira, it would have been somebody else. Sooner or later one or more groups of illegal immigrants always get around to demanding their "rights" here in the U.S.

But everytime the illegals do something to try to bully Americans into suporting amnesty, it backfires on them. Their marches backfired. Their boycotts backfired. Their hunger strikes backfired. And taking sanctuary in a church backfired.

So I think this just illustrates that the majority of Americans are simply not sympathetic to the illegals' demands, and the more the illegals scream, shout, boycott, march and threaten, the more they turn people against them.

Their marches backfired.

That's how I got here. All it took was for my local government that I pay to serve and protect me to allow the street in my town to fill with illegal alien invaders. They turned their police out on me to prevent me using streets I paid for so invaders could deliver a list of demands to "my" Senators and Representatives at "my" federal building. There must be retribution. Teach your children well their father's hell.

I have to admit, El Presidente Bush surprised me the day she got deported.

That was a good day for America.

Finally.

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

I have to admit, El Presidente Bush surprised me the day she got deported.

That was a good day for America.

Finally.

You said it Legal! Maybe we should make that day our newest national holiday.
We could call it, Unsanctuary Day?!

Can someone get us a link to and the full text of the original article please.

W

Not the exact article but related:

Radio host knows path of immigrants

Mary Schmich
August 22, 2007

Last August, a few days after I first heard of Elvira Arellano, I also heard for the first time of Javier Salas.

Arellano had just sequestered herself inside Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church and I asked an undocumented Mexican woman I know fairly well how she felt about it.

She and Arellano are from the same Mexican town, both single mothers. I assumed she would be sympathetic.

She wasn't.

Arellano, she said, was hurting immigrants like her. Making people like her too visible. Making too many people mad. She said I should listen to her favorite radio program.

She wrote it down on a paper scrap: Javier Salas. WRTO. AM 1200.

In the past few days, since Arellano escaped to L.A. and was promptly deported, Salas has gone from being a radio host known almost exclusively to Spanish speakers to one whose unformulaic viewpoint is being more widely heard.

A sturdy, broad-faced guy of 43, Salas grew up in Mexico City and in 1989 moved to Chicago, where, after deliberately overstaying his visa, he bought phony work papers off the street.

He started out as a day worker cleaning bathrooms. He graduated to busboy, then waiter, at Bub City Crabshack on the North Side.

He learned English, got a degree at Truman College, gravitated to radio and fell in love with an American woman. When they married in 1998, he was forced back to Mexico for two years before he got on an American citizenship track.

His parents, too, arrived illegally. (His father, at 67, is now a legal busboy at the W Hotel, and refuses his son's offers to find him an easier job.)

So Salas knows the difficulties of the undocumented immigrant. He ardently promotes the need to give them a clear path to citizenship.

Yet he has never championed Arellano.

"This is not about bashing Elvira," he said Tuesday, sitting in a Starbucks after finishing his morning news-and-talk show. He was wearing blue jeans and had pushed his glasses back on his graying black hair. "My heart goes to her. I wish her the best in Mexico."

But there are 12 million other lives and stories, he says, to make the case for humane immigration reform. Hers is not the best.

Better would be the undocumented soldiers dying in Iraq. The undocumented sick who can't find decent care. The undocumented college students who came here as kids and can't get financial aid.

This week, Salas' views have been quoted in the Tribune, on WLS-Ch. 7 and on National Public Radio. He also chatted with conservative TV talker Glenn Beck, though when he mentions that appearance he shudders.

Salas stresses that he's not remotely anti-immigrant. And it's not Arellano, he says, who has hurt the immigration cause.

"The media coverage hurt the cause," he says. "It's the media who made her."

Of course, the media alone didn't make her. Plenty of activists helped construct her as a heroine and symbol, and many care for her and respect her.

But Salas faults the media for spending too much time talking to Arellano and not enough talking to the people she allegedly represents.

Salas believes that when the media portray Arellano taunting American authorities, it makes life harder for other immigrants. When she makes a cross-country car escape, other immigrants start to worry about checkpoints and driver crackdowns.

And if reporters spent more time in the neighborhoods, he says, they might know, for example, the problem with her being in a Methodist church.

"The regular Mexican Joe," Salas says, "thinks, 'I don't know any Methodists. What the hell is a Methodist?'"

Most Mexicans are Catholic, and if she had gone into a Catholic church, he says, she might have more support.

So, I asked, what is the perfect face to symbolize the cause?

There's not one, he said. There are 12 million faces.

That's a convincing argument. We need to find practical, fair immigration reform to deal with 12 million people. Let's stop being distracted by one.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 744.column

Found a video here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=13887511

I wonder if this ignorant, illiterate criminal illegal alien, aka Elvira, is aware of the fact that re-entering the US after being deported is a FELONY...punishable by 20 years in prison!!!

Sorry, Elvira...guess you are just never going to be the Mexican Ambassodor of Peace and Justice! And thanks for taking your kid back to Tijuana with you so that we don't have one more phony anchor baby to support! Good luck and good riddance!!!

Mr. Salas attempts to rewrite history. Perhaps the media did make Elvira but she and others supporting illegal immigration actively courted them and staged provocative scenes to keep them interested. That provocation has continued right up to Saul's recent foray into the House of Representatives - an experience that was clearly painful to him. There was no reason for Saul's presence except to ensure the interest of the media. Elvira and Saul have been carefully choreographed by Emma Lozano and her minions and indeed they did intend to make them the face of their movement.

I applaud Mr. Salas' newly discovered clarity but I think it might have been formed after lurking around the Alipac boards.