Thread: RE : ARRELLANO , WAIT FOR IT, THERE WILL BE REPERCUSIONS

Arellano turns up in L.A.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT | Says she doesn't fear arrest on 1st trip away from sanctuary


RE : ARRELLANO,
WAIT FOR IT............
THERE WILL BE REPERCUSIONS

''From the time I took sanctuary, the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want,'' she said in Spanish. ''I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight.''

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/5165 ... 07.article

THANKS MAIA!!!!!

Thanks MAIA, for all of your hard work on this issue!!

L.A. Indymedia

7/19 Emergency Alert! Immig Activist Elvira Arellano Arrested in Los Angeles!

Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007 at 5:16 PM

Elvira Arellano, who, with her son Saul, has become a national symbol of the destruction of families by federal policy, was taken into immigration custody today in Los Angeles. What follows is a call for a nationwide protest and vigil in downtown LA and phone calls to ICE.

Supporting organizations of national sanctuary movement are calling for NATIONWIDE PROTEST, at 8pm PACIFIC TIME, at local ICE OFFICE. We must not let Elvira get deported. Liliana is safe here in Long Beach still on Sanctuary.

Suggest Immediate Actions to Support Her:

1) Call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, demand them the safety of the Elvira Arellano, no deportation, and demand her immediately release from the ICE custody.

ICE Field Office Director, Los Angeles
300 North Los Angeles St., Room 7631A
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-830-7911

ICE Headquarters, Director, Office of Detention and Removal Operations
801 I St, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20536
Phone: 202-305-2734

2) Daily peace vigil at the Los Angeles ICE office until Elvira Arellano's safe release.

ICE Field Office, Los Angeles
300 North Los Angeles St., Room 7631A
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-830-7911

More 'demands.'

We have laws in this country that sometimes are enforced.

Just who in the hell do these people think they are, anyway? Their gall absolutely knows no bounds!!!!!

Elvira is a criminal and she is exactly where she belongs......behind bars and on her way back to her country. If they love her so much, they can all just go with her

Chicago protesters gather after immigration activist arrested in L.A.

Associated Press - August 19, 2007 10:24 PM ET

CHICAGO (AP) - More than 30 people are gathered outside a U.S. Immigration office in downtown Chicago to protest the arrest of an illegal immigrant who had sought sanctuary in a Chicago church.

Immigration authorities confirm they arrested Elvira Arellano (el-VEE'-ruh ah-ray-AH'-noh) this afternoon in Los Angeles.

The agency says she's being processed for removal to Mexico based upon a deportation order originally issued by a federal judge in 1997.

In Chicago, protesters are huddled around a small statue of the Virgin Mary, chanting, beating drums, and reciting the Lord's Prayer. One is holding a placard with a picture of Arellano's son.

Arellano had sought refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist Church to avoid being separated from her 8-year-old son.

She left the church for the first time in a year to campaign for immigration reform in Los Angeles this weekend.

http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=6953341

Elvira Arellano's supporters hold prayer vigil

Associated Press - August 20, 2007 1:24 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Activists gathered to sing and pray outside of the Federal Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles tonight in support of the woman who was arrested by immigration authorities earlier today.

Elvira Arellano, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, escaped deportation by holing up in a Chicago church for the past year. She was detained this afternoon as she left at a downtown church.

In 1997 Arellano was arrested for working under a false social security number at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

Her fight to remain in the country with her 8-year-old son - an American citizen - helped kick off the New Sanctuary Movement, which is recruiting churches around the country to harbor illegal immigrants and encourage immigration reform.

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=6953584

URGENT Action Alert!
August 19, 2007 - 6:41pm —
***URGENT ACTION ALERT***

ICE Arrests New Sanctuary Movement Mother Outside La Placita Olvera Church in Los Angeles.

This afternoon, Sunday, August 19, Elvira Arellano, mother of a New Sanctuary Movement Family housed in Chicago, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as she left Our Lady Queen of Angels Church at La Placita Olvera in Los Angeles.

Take action now!

1) Call Julie Myers, Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement IMMEDIATELY and REPEATEDLY and tell her to immediately release Elvira Arellano and stop tearing apart families!
Phone: (202) 305-2734 at the Office of Detention and Removal Operations.

Also call John Torres at ICE and tell him that you support Elvira Arellano.
Phone: (202) 514-5065
You can also email him at: john.torres@dhs.gov.

Sample Message:
Shame on you for tearing mothers apart from their children!
Shame on you for offering no path to legal status for millions of hard working families!
I stand with Elvira Arellano and the millions like her. I demand Elvira's immediate release, a moratorium on raids and deportations, and an end to the separation of families!

2) Come out and show your support and solidarity for Elvira and her children!
Attend a vigil tonight at La Placita Church at 8:00 p.m.
Attend a protest tomorrow, Monday, August 20 at 6:00 p.m. in front of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. Address: 300 N. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Immigration activist leaves Chicago sanctuary for L.A.

Comments On This Story

MAIA wrote on Aug 19, 2007 9:42 PM:

" Mothers Against Illegal Aliens has been in frequent contact with the L.A. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office as well as Capital Police in Washingtin D.C. to assist in ensuring the apprehension of ... fugitive from justice Elvira Arellano upon her flight from the Chicago church where she hid for one year. Should ICE not have apprehended Elvira Arellano before her trip to Washington D.C. they were informed that Michelle Dallacroce, President and Founder of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens along with Ted Hayes were organizing a �citizens arrest?... "

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08 ... ogcomments