TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2008/04/03/219170/

The Mexican activist, Elvira Arellano, exhorted to the political establishment not to criminalize immigration but on the contrary, to organize it in a just way.

Mexico, DF.- The activist Elvira Arellano, who heads the Central American Migrant Movement, reported that on May 1 marches and mobilizations will be carried out in all the U.S. cities to support the lobbying of an immigration reform bill.

Upon participating in the homage to the life and thought of Martin Luther King, organized by the CDHDF and the Autonomous University of Mexico City, she indicated that her son Saúl, who is eight years of age, he will travel to the United States to participate in the marches in Chicago.

Likewise, the small Saúl will travel to Washington D.C. on May 2, where he will try, with the support of civil organizations, to deliver a letter to Congressmen to ask for justice and the push of an immigration reform bill.

Elvira Arellano who was deported last year U.S. had to leave her son, because the boy is an American citizen, although he later was brought to Mexico.

The Mexican activist exhorted the political establishment not to criminalize immigration but on the contrary, to organize it in a just way.

Arellano indicated that Saúl will not miss school in Mexico City, since May 1 and 2 are festive days and wont have classes until May 5.

In this event the Commission of Human Rights of Mexico City participated specialists of the UACM, as well as representatives of civil organizations of Mexican American migrants.

In the event Monseigneur Samuel Ruiz was there, bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.

After mentioning the fight for social justice that prompted Martin Luther King, it was told that the most terrible thing is that after 40 years discrimination and actions against immigrants still exist in the United States.



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