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aGameOfThrones
03-19-2014, 12:38 PM
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - An illegal Mexican immigrant who made headlines after seeking refuge from deportation in a Chicago church joined a growing protest of deportees crossing into the United States on Tuesday, asking to be allowed to stay, organizers said.

Elvira Arellano, who was deported in 2007, re-entered the country at San Diego with her two children, Saul, 15, and Emiliano, 4 months, said National Immigrant Youth Association organizer Dulce Guerrero. She was taken into detention by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Guerrero said.

Arellano, 38, led a group of dozens of mostly young, undocumented adults raised in the United States but sent back to Mexico over the border in an ongoing protest of the plight of immigrants deported to in a sometimes violent country where they feel like strangers.

The participants are mostly in their 20s and say they would have been protected in the United States and allowed to attend college with in-state tuition fees had Congress passed the 2010 Dream Act protecting undocumented youths brought to the country as children.

Most were seeking asylum, citing fear of violence in Mexico, but the group that crossed on Tuesday asked for humanitarian parole, or temporary permission to remain in the country for compassionate reasons, Guerrero said.

In 2007, Arellano drew national attention and was named a person of the year by Time magazine for staying within the cramped walls of the storefront Adalberto United Methodist Church for one year, invoking the traditional protection of sanctuary.

With Saul, then 8, she eventually departed the safety of the church to participate in a march for immigration reform, and was eventually deported to Mexico.

Arellano entered the United States illegally in 1997, was returned to Mexico, then recrossed the border and was working a menial job at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2002 when she was arrested in an immigration sweep. She was convicted of working under a false Social Security number and, after several delays, was ordered deported.

http://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-immigrant-hid-chicago-church-enters-u-044339122.html

angelatc
03-19-2014, 01:22 PM
My heart bleeds.

erowe1
03-19-2014, 01:41 PM
Is there a reason for deporting these people?

Snew
03-19-2014, 02:49 PM
Is there a reason for deporting these people?

^this

fisharmor
03-19-2014, 03:05 PM
My heart bleeds.

So you're back from Emerald City already?

Philhelm
03-19-2014, 03:33 PM
Is there a reason for deporting these people?

They're swarthy.

NIU Students for Liberty
03-19-2014, 03:44 PM
They're swarthy.

Can we deport the gingers since their complexion makes people feel uncomfortable too?

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h57/DXHBK_2006/ginger-1.jpg

Philhelm
03-19-2014, 03:49 PM
Can we deport the gingers since their complexion makes people feel uncomfortable too?

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h57/DXHBK_2006/ginger-1.jpg

No. That's like asking if we should deport rats, snakes, spiders, and other vermin.

VIDEODROME
03-19-2014, 04:41 PM
It doesn't seem like we need a Zero Tolerance policy in these situations. What if she was a functional and productive worker and not just here for welfare?


Also, all these people seem quite willing to organize to get something they all want. Could that be harnessed somehow by partnering with them instead of booting them out? What if we sit down with all these people and see if all of them as a group might be interested in supporting reformers in their own country? Encourage and empower Mexicans with education to cleanup Mexico.