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THE MUSINGS OF A TRADITIONAL SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Don't hold your breath: Supporters of deported illegal immigrant advocate for families to seek Congressional bill authorizing her return.

From The New York Times:

Elvira Arellano, 32, had defied a federal deportation order by spending much of the past year in a Chicago church seeking to raise awareness of how deportations can separate families.

On Sunday, after she spoke at Our Lady Queen of Angels, a Roman Catholic church in downtown Los Angeles, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her car a few blocks away and arrested her.

Jim Hayes, the immigration agency’s Los Angeles field office director, said Ms. Arellano’s arrest was not a “message to the sanctuary movement as much as it is a message to criminal illegal aliens who are fugitives, that we are going to continue to target them.”

Mr. Hayes said Ms. Arellano had been deported once before, after entering the country illegally in 1997. She re-entered and was convicted in 2002 of a felony, using a false Social Security card, which she used to acquire a job cleaning airplanes at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

A federal judge ordered Mr. Arellano deported last August and, instead of surrendering to immigration agents, she sought safe harbor at Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago, where she denounced immigration raids that separate families with both citizens and illegal immigrants as members.

[I]mmigration agents generally do not make arrests on religious property.

[Her supporters said they would seek] a Congressional bill authorizing her return.

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