Thread: Deporting Elvira - late Christmas present for America?

If this really happens - I will sing and dance in the street. I'm not kidding.

CHICAGO -- Members of a storefront church said Wednesday they fear U.S. authorities plan to raid their building and arrest an illegal immigrant who has taken refuge there.

Adalberto United Methodist Church has sheltered Elvira Arellano and her 8-year-old son, Saul, since August. Arellano sought sanctuary at the West Side church after she was ordered deported, saying she didn't want to be separated from her son, a U.S. citizen.

The Rev. Walter Coleman said neighborhood residents reported seeing U.S. marshals taking photos of the church Tuesday night. But Mark Gregoline, deputy U.S. marshal for northern Illinois, said Wednesday that his agency is not involved in the case.



Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said he had heard the same rumors Wednesday, but said his agency was not involved in surveillance, either. Agency officials have said Arellano's case is not a high priority, but there is nothing to prevent them from arresting her.

Church members -- who keep the glass doors chained and covered with heavy curtains -- said they will resume a 24-hour vigil that includes prayer and standing watch at windows and doors and from the rooftop.

They said the recent multistate raids at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants and the arrest two weeks ago of Martin Barrios, a Berwyn factory worker who'd been featured in a Chicago Sun-Times article, made them even more fearful for Arellano.

"To carry out these raids in this holy season, separating families who have no criminal records, who have done nothing wrong, who have been workers and taxpayers and whose children are U.S. citizens ... for that to happen now is inexplicable to me," Coleman said.

Coleman said church members wouldn't resist in the event of a raid.

"We are going to pray; that is the only weapon we have," he said.

Arellano is a former cleaning woman at O'Hare International Airport convicted of using a false Social Security number.

The church has asked the Bush administration to suspend deportation of illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children until Congress passes an immigration reform bill. In November, Saul Arellano traveled to Mexico and successfully lobbied its Chamber of Deputies to call on the U.S. Congress to suspend such deportations.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 1863.story

I heard about this this morning on the radio. I too will be dancing in the streets when this happens.

I saw this on the Illinois Minutemen site. It is a quick easy way to conact Fitzgerald and demand action about Elvira. Will you help us poor sanctuary burdened Illinoisians?!


http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/ ... &type=mcdc

TAKE ACTION: Have you had enough? Since Elvira Arellano is calling upon allies locally and internationally, we are responding likewise. Some people are comparing this criminal to a civil rights activists; some even call her a modern day Rosa Parks -- that is offensive. This is not about civil rights -- it's about the rights of Americans who demand that criminals be punished.

We are appealing to people across the United States: take time to write a letter! We cannot allow the fugitive Elvira to stay here in the United States and create precedence for illegal aliens across America. The country you save may be your own!

We are asking that you write a letter to Michael Battle, Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the man who is the "boss" of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (the Special Counsel for Northern Illinois). You can make your letter short, but be sure to include two things:

1) Please ask U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate why ICE/Homeland Security in Illinois has not deported Elvira Arellano, and

2) Please ask, why hasn't Rev. Coleman of Adalberto United Methodist Church been arrested for aiding and abetting an illegal alien and a fugitive?

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald already knows about these lawbreakers in Chicago. Let's give him another chance to enforce our immigration laws for the good of all Americans.

Done!

the sooner this b*tch is gone the better things will be.
maybe it will scare parents into realizing that just cuz their kid was born here does not mean he cant be deported.

AND im SICK AND TIRED of hearing this persons name

Elvira is spitting in the eye of ICE and the U.S. government, she makes all of them look like they are not capable of doing their jobs. It is amazing how one woman can make the entire law enforcement, homeland security, court system and federal goverment look incapable and flaunt it in their faces for the whole nation and world to see and get away with it.

"To carry out these raids in this holy season, separating families who have no criminal records, who have done nothing wrong, who have been workers and taxpayers and whose children are U.S. citizens ... for that to happen now is inexplicable to me," Coleman said.

This woman is a criminal as she has been deported before and came back again illegally. She has also been convicted of identity theft and working in this country illegally. What is this guy talking about? This woman is a criminal and should be deported immediately.

While I applaud ICE's raids at Swift I must say allowing this illegal criminal to continue to remain in America tarnishes ICE and other Federal Agencies.

Originally Posted by sawdust

Elvira is spitting in the eye of ICE and the U.S. government, she makes all of them look like they are not capable of doing their jobs. It is amazing how one woman can make the entire law enforcement, homeland security, court system and federal goverment look incapable and flaunt it in their faces for the whole nation and world to see and get away with it.

It's not Elvira, it's Bush. When all is said and done our president is the chief law enforcement official in the United States. Bush could order her arrested and deported this very minute.

Unfortunately, if she was arrested the courts would probably release her OR and give her a court date for next November.