Thread: Elvira Arellano - The Final Word

Elvira Arellano - The Final Word
Posted in Illegal Aliens & Immigration Reforms on August 26th, 2007 by MorningStar
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Elvira Arellano’s deportation to Tijuana on August 19, 2007 has been viewed in the U.S. and Mexico as evidence of an enhanced immigration crackdown in an American society growing increasingly frustrated and intolerant with the estimated 20 million illegal aliens who now flood our streets, our schools and our hospitals with their growing demands for rights and privilege, while the rights and privilege once enjoyed by the American citizen are being washed away in a flood of political change. However, in this modern world where everything we see and hear is subjected to a thick coat of propaganda and every word of our nightly newscasts is carefully selected to impart the maximum bias in a direction that is always implied but never spoken, can any among us honestly claim to know the essential truth of any given event? Arellano’s motivations will forever remain the topic of interpretation and we may never know everything about the circumstances of her case, but her actions left a trail that can be followed, and those actions speak loud enough by themselves.

There is no doubt that Elvira Arellano was a criminal, her continued unauthorized presence in a country from which she had previously been deported in 1997 defines her status as a criminal. Her use of fraudulent Social Security documents as well as her failure to report to the Chicago immigration authorities as she promised to do when she was initially released to care for her son, further substantiate her criminal intent to violate the laws of the United States. The unauthorized re-entry of a previously deported illegal alien is a felony punishable by a maximum of 10 years imprisonment (8 USCS 1326 (b).) and Elvira Arellano’s presence in the U.S. after her previous 1997 deportation is a matter of record. When she was apprehended in Chicago in 2002, she was working as a janitor at O’Hare International Airport under a false Social Security number which she supplied during the hiring process. She was convicted of working under a false Social Security number. The false representation of a Social Security account number with intent to deceive for any purpose is a felony under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B). A conviction for Social Security Fraud carries a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a maximum fine of $250,000. Instead of deporting her immediately, the Chicago immigration authorities allowed her to be released on her written promise to turn herself in to the immigration authorities in August 2006. She subsequently failed to keep this promise and evaded apprehension by hiding out in the Adalberto United Methodist Church, a storefront operation on Chicago’s West Side that offered her “sanctuary.â€

She remained on the church property from August 15, 2006 until she left with her son exactly one year later to attend an immigration rally in Los Angeles, California. Leaving one state where warrants have been issued for one’s arrest and traveling across state lines is a federal crime called interstate flight to avoid prosecution, it can carry a penalty of as much as six years in a federal prison. The vehicle she was traveling in on Main Street in Los Angeles was pulled over by federal authorities after leaving for another immigration rally in Northern California. Elvira Arellano was quickly apprehended, and as her supporters were busy expressing their outrage and telling the press that they planned to fight her deportation, she was driven across the border into Tijuana, Mexico and released.

Elvira Arellano may not have been the most desperate criminal ever arrested in the United States, but the fact remains, she was a criminal. If the federal authorities chose to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law she could be facing 10 to 15 years behind bars in a federal prison for her assorted violations of American law, however, they didn’t do that. Instead they returned her to her country of origin where she remains a free citizen of Mexico.

It will be very interesting to see if Mexico goes through with its bluff in terms of retaliating against the US on this criminal aliens' behalf.