Thread: Mexico Senate Takes Up Migrant's Cause

8/23/07

Mexico Senate Takes Up Migrant's Cause
By ISTRA PACHECO
Associated Press Writer

A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year.

The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States.

Elvira Arellano, 32, became an activist and a national symbol for illegal immigrant parents by defying her deportation order and speaking out from her sanctuary in the Adalberto United Methodist Church. She announced last week that she was leaving to try to lobby U.S. lawmakers for immigration reform.

On Sunday, shortly after she spoke at a rally in a Los Angeles church, she was arrested and deported to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.

'We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,' Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.

He accused the United States of violating international deportation accords by denying her access to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.

Arellano, who was at the committee's session, said Saul is in Chicago in the care of his godmother and will attend a Sept. 12 rally for immigration reform in Washington. She said she would help organize a rally in Tijuana that same day to demand Mexican authorities do more to protect migrants.

'For me it is very important that our government take a strong stand to defend all of us who decide to migrate to another country,' she said.

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IF THE MEXICAN CONSULATE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HER, THEY HAD A YEAR TO GO AND TALK TO HER. SHE WAS PROPERLY DEPORTED. ICE SHOULD CONTINUE AND STEP UP DEPORTATIONS IN THIS SAME FASHION. MEXICO WILL GET USE TO IT.

Felipe Calderon, we don't want your illegal Mexicans here. Why don't you clean up your corruption if your so worried about your people and quit trying to find ways to push them off on other countries. Other countries don't want your corrupted illegals either.

Mexico needs to stay the hell out of our business and clean up their own messy government. As for a scholarship for poor little Saul. I hope it is for a good Mexican University!!

These Mexicans are utterly unbelievable!!!!

'We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,' Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.

There is more than a little irony in a country using such vigor to assert the 'rights' of their citizens to remain in a foreign country.

Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

'We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,' Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.

There is more than a little irony in a country using such vigor to assert the 'rights' of their citizens to remain in a foreign country.

Who in the hell do these people think they are that they can demand all of us American people to allow their illegals to come here and do whatever they want? If someone came to my house or called me and demanded i let them in so they could trash my place, take my money our just whatever they felt like doing! Well i better stop there.

Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

'We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,' Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.

There is more than a little irony in a country using such vigor to assert the 'rights' of their citizens to remain in a foreign country.

It amazes me that all the mostly Mexican neighborhoods I've seen very much look like parts of Mexico. So if you love Mexico so much, why would it be a problem to be back in Mexico? Why don't all the pro-illegal folks go march on the Mexican gov't and demand change while this is fresh on their minds -can you think of a better time? Plus, how bad does it make the Mexican gov't look to have hundreds dying each year attempting to enter the US. Then when someone is deported, they actually prefer to be separated from their child rather than have him live in Mexico -not forgetting that the neighborhood they lived in was a mirror image of Mexico. What all the pro-illegal folks need to do is march on the prostrate Mexican gov't and demand change while they have momentum -can you think of a better time...

Listen to Elvira tell the Mexican Congress that the US is the one who broke the law first by letting the people cross without documents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-kwF1eWwOA&NR=1

Does it seem bizarre to anyone else that a Mexican senator would object to having one of his citizens sent home? Is that a tacit admission that Mexico has failed as a nation? That it's a craphole after all? Not worthy of its youth?

Originally Posted by Tom2

Does it seem bizarre to anyone else that a Mexican senator would object to having one of his citizens sent home? Is that a tacit admission that Mexico has failed as a nation? That it's a craphole after all? Not worthy of its youth?

I'm amazed that Mexico even has a government!!!