Thread: Elvira Arellano: Sanctuary's Human Face

Please do not read unless you have a strong stomach and have had a recent health checkup by your doctor:


Elvira Arellano: Sanctuary's Human Face
Aarti Shahani, Posted: Jan 12, 2008

Elvira Arellano met with Felipe Calderon in his salon. These household names from Michoacán, Mexico followed starkly different paths to celebrity: the latter, a Harvard graduate, had just taken the Mexican presidency with only a .58-percent margin of victory and amidst fervent dissent; the former, a cleaning lady, had just been deported from the United States after taking sanctuary to evade immigration laws.

Elvira came to Felipe seeking a diplomatic visa to return to the U.S. legally. Already praised as a peace ambassador and the “Rosita Parksâ€

Emma invited her to live in a church.








A bit of a departure from the story Emma and Slim tell isn't it?

According to their version, Elvira showed up on their doorstep pleading for sanctuary on the day she was supposed to report for deportation.

So now it is supposedly Emma who invited....and encouraged.....her to flee from authorities?


Still reading....but, it's the strangest thing.......my eyes are beginning to burn and I suddenly feel sick :P

The US broke the laws of the Geneva Convention

Actually she was escorted back to Mexico by a Mexican Consulate. Lying seems to be the norm for a of lot IA's especially Elvira.

[quote]My colleague Subhash Kateel, a veteran organizer, once told a disbelieving congressman, “Deportation is the cruelest civil proceeding in America. Is there any other where you can be incarcerated the whole time and never get a hearing?â€

Oh my goodness, Elvira is my hero.

[b] “They knew with her inside, all hell would have broken loose.Hunger strikes. She would have been organizing prisoners.â€

Throwing up emoticon

She is the face of someone who stole ID and took a job away from a American citizen. She is a criminal.

In front of the cameras she was on a hunger strike. Behind the scenes she was gulping down tacos.

[quote]Though the government could have locked her up for several years, they did not. Luissana Santibanez, a college student who began visiting detained women and children after her own mother was deported, suggests, “They knew with her inside, all hell would have broken loose. Hunger strikes. She would have been organizing prisoners.â€