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Title: Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Post by: Soldier4Christ on August 23, 2007, 03:03:14 PM Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first
Blames government for 'letting' people cross border Mexican Senate sides with deported activist Urges Calderon to send a diplomatic note protesting U.S. deportation A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States. Elvira Arellano, 32, became an activist and a national symbol for illegal immigrant parents by defying her deportation order and speaking out from her sanctuary in the Adalberto United Methodist Church. She announced last week that she was leaving to try to lobby U.S. lawmakers for immigration reform. On Sunday, shortly after she spoke at a rally in a Los Angeles church, she was arrested and deported to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. He accused the United States of violating international deportation accords by denying her access to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. Arellano, who was at the committee's session, said Saul is in Chicago in the care of his godmother and will attend a Sept. 12 rally for immigration reform in Washington. She said she would help organize a rally in Tijuana that same day to demand Mexican authorities do more to protect migrants. "For me it is very important that our government take a strong stand to defend all of us who decide to migrate to another country," she said. Title: Re: Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Post by: Debp on August 23, 2007, 08:52:26 PM Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Blames government for 'letting' people cross border "For me it is very important that our government take a strong stand to defend all of us who decide to migrate to another country," she said. ??? I don't get it. :) Sounds crazy to me. Title: Re: Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Post by: Soldier4Christ on August 23, 2007, 09:17:04 PM Oops. The first headline was a video. I forgot to put her statement from that on here. She bascially said since the U.S. "allowed" immigrants to cross the border that the U.S. was the one that broke the law for doing so.
It's all just people that are trying to substantiate their own illegal actions. It is always somebody else's fault and never their own. Mexico is now supporting the illegal actions of their own people. That is why we are getting so many Border Agents put in jail just for doing their job. Title: Re: Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Post by: Debp on August 24, 2007, 03:14:54 AM I really got it....but was just meaning that what she is saying sounds/is crazy. I try to be funny sometimes while making statements! :)
Title: Re: Deported activist says U.S. broke the law first Post by: Soldier4Christ on August 24, 2007, 08:22:27 AM I thought you were but I realized then that I had also left out part of my post.
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