Thread: House panel to discuss immigration

House panel to discuss immigration

By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons | Tribune staff reporter
10:15 PM CDT, August 25, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... ports_util

Re-energized by the arrest of Elvira Arellano, immigrant advocates in Illinois said Saturday that they hope a congressional hearing next month will involve discussion on ways to keep families together despite the failure to approve immigration reform legislation in June.

The couple caring for Arellano's son in Chicago since her Aug. 19 arrest in Los Angeles discussed the details of her cross-country trip to drum up support for reviving the issue when Congress returns from recess.

Rev. Walter Coleman said Arellano helped to reunify the movement that now will focus its attention on a Sept. 6 hearing before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Immigration.

"We had to get the discussion going again and take another try at legislation that would at least give relief to the 12 million undocumented immigrants if comprehensive reform is no longer possible," said Coleman, who leads Adalberto United Methodist Church. For a year, Arellano sought sanctuary in the church with her 8-year-old son, Saul, who is a U.S. citizen.

Three days after Arellano's arrest, Coleman met with the staff of U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the immigration subcommittee, to push for the hearing.

Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, is expected to testify before the subcommittee as is Chicago resident Tony Wasilewski, whose wife was deported to Poland this summer.

Some call Arellano a hero, but others say she deserved to be deported because she broke the law and consider her as an imperfect face for the cause.

efitzsimmons@tribune.com

We had to get the discussion going again and take another try at legislation that would at least give relief to the 12 million undocumented immigrants if comprehensive reform is no longer possible," said Coleman, who leads Adalberto United Methodist Church.

What the heck does "give relief" mean? If anything, the brazen actions of this illegal alien felon who violated our laws for years, who abandoned her 8-year-old son and continues to use him as a political prop -- has outraged Americans of all backgrounds and has stiffened our resolve to enforce our immigration laws.

And although the dinosaur media is predictably playing up the sob story aspect, talk radio, blogs and the new media will frame this issue for what it is: an illegal alien felon who was finally and rightfully deported.

I live in Illinois. Reading this makes my stomach feel sick. We may need to ask for alipac's help if this discussion actually starts to take place. As I read it I thought of the other states who are tightening up the ship -and here we have Illinois opening the door. I imagine tens of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into our state...

Lets ask Judicial Watch to file a lawsuit against anchor babies on the basis that their citizenship was unconstitutionally granted. Without US citizenship they would be deported along with their parents, thus "keeping the family together".

Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Subcommittee
(Subordinate of the Judiciary Committee)
Mailing Address:
517 CHOB
Washington, DC 20515-6217
Telephone:
(202) 225-3926

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Republican
Steve King, IA
Elton Gallegly, CA
Bob Goodlatte, VA
Daniel E. Lungren, CA
J. Randy Forbes, VA
Louie Gohmert, TX

Democrat
Zoe Lofgren, CA, Chairman
Luis V. Gutierrez, IL
Howard L. Berman, CA
Sheila Jackson-Lee, TX
Maxine Waters, CA
William D. Delahunt, MA
Linda T. Sánchez, CA
Artur Davis, AL
Keith Ellison, MN
Vacancy

We can call them up next week and tell them, she can take her kid with her.

Dixie

Luis V. Gutierrez, IL

...this little creep is absolutely revolting. I see a lot of libtard Dems on the immigration subcommittee. This will spell trouble.