Thread: Mexican congressmen visit immigration activist in church

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Mexican congressmen visit immigration activist in church
Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007

A delegation of Mexican congressmen pledged their continued support Friday for an undocumented Chicago mother who says she is defying a U.S. deportation order because wants to remain here with her son, who is a U.S. citizen.

The politicians visited immigration activist Elvira Arellano at the Adalberto United Methodist Church, where she and her now 8-year-old son have taken refuge since mid-August. They told Arellano her plight has galvanized Mexico’s multiparty Congress behind a single issue: the reunification of families.

“This fight of yours — this fight for the Latina family — is a fight that has united us,” Edmundo Ramirez, a congressman with Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, said.

The Mexican officials traveled to Chicago after visiting Washington, D.C., on Thursday and presenting members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Hispanic Caucus with a resolution passed by the Mexican Congress in November.

The resolution expresses support for Arellano and asks the U.S. Congress to suspend her deportation order. The document, which also calls for a moratorium on massive deportations, was drafted after Arrelano’s son, Saul, visited Mexico’s 500-member Chamber of Deputies to plead for help in lobbying Washington to stop his mother’s deportation.

Jose Jacques, a congressman with Mexico’s Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, said the U.S. needs to enact sensible immigration laws that allow families to stay together.

“We don’t want to be hidden from the streets in the darkness of our homes,” he said. “It is a humane fight. It is a fight for families.”

The Mexican congressman also were joined by Dolores Huerta, a longtime activist who helped found the United Farm Workers Union along with Cesar Chavez. She asked that immigrant rights marches being planned around the country for April 29th be dedicated to Arellano and her son, Saul.

“The people that come here from Mexico come here to work and build this country,” Huerta said.

Arellano illegally crossed into the U.S. in 1997. She was arrested and sent back to Mexico but returned to the U. S. within several days and moved to Chicago three years later. In 2002, Arellano was arrested again and convicted of working as a cleaning woman at O’Hare International Airport under a false Social Security number.

She says she wants to live in the United States to get a better life for her son, who was born in the U.S. and is a legal citizen. She has become a vocal proponent for immigration reform that would prevent undocumented aliens from being deported if they have children born in this country.

She defended her decision to defy a federal deportation order.

“We know we came to a country that doesn’t belong to us,” Arellano said Friday. “But we didn’t come to harm anyone. We didn’t come to kill or rob. We only came to this country with the hope of finding a better job, a better future for our families.”

Oh, I've had enough! They broke our laws, and we are expected to say ok, we'll let everyone break all the laws!

Mexican officials should be ashamed of themselves....they are saying it's ok to break our laws, but if one is in their Country it's different.

THE USA CANNOT TAKE THE WHOLE WORLD'S PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Before Mexican lawmakers try to tell Americans how to run our country they need to improve their country. They treat illegals as lower than animals yet they come to america and tell us how bad we are treating their citizens. Think about how bad they would treat american citizens if we broke their laws and the american government would not support the US citizen, they would support the Mexican law. Look at how the US government has treated "Dog" and the border agents. Send the Mexican lawmakers home with all Mexican illegals and let them deal with their citizens.

The resolution expresses support for Arellano and asks the U.S. Congress to suspend her deportation order. The document, which also calls for a moratorium on massive deportations, was drafted after Arrelano’s son, Saul, visited Mexico’s 500-member Chamber of Deputies to plead for help in lobbying Washington to stop his mother’s deportation.

If they suspend her deportation order - you're looking at one pissed off dude!!!!!!!

Elvira is much more than your run of the mill illegal immigrant. The lady has broken several laws and needs prosecuted to the fullest extent allowable by law. Deportation is not the answer, prison is!

Deportation is not the answer, prison is!

if i stole someones ss#... twice i bet the feds would not hesitate in throwing my butt in jail even if that said butt were in church!

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Jose Jacques, a congressman with Mexico’s Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, said the U.S. needs to enact sensible immigration laws that allow families to stay together.

She defended her decision to defy a federal deportation order.

“We know we came to a country that doesn’t belong to us,” Arellano said Friday. “But we didn’t come to harm anyone. We didn’t come to kill or rob. We only came to this country with the hope of finding a better job, a better future for our families.”

-if they want to keep the family together, take the child back to the home country. The child can return here as an adult.

-Sorry Alvira, but you blatantly broke reasonable and duly enacted laws and are braking another one as I write this. Once we allow the erosion of the rule of law, we are on our way to being just like the country you came from. Your blatantly illegal behavior is an illustration of much of what is wrong with Mexico. Go home and improve your country instead of breaking our laws and telling us what we should do.

Don't forget she's working full time as an illegal immigrant's rights activist for Centro sin Fronteras. I wonder if she gets paid?