How come when Elvira Arellano goes on a diet it makes headlines?

Question

http://www.nbc5.com/family/11550184/detail.html?rss=chi&psp=news


And can we really believe in 'enforcement' so long as she is still there?

Answer 1

I honestly hope she and her priest go on a hunger strike, then they will find out that this ridiculous campaign is not going to work. Who told her she has any rights? She has the arrogance and unmitigated nerve to send her son to Mexico and ask Mexican legislators to stop her deportation back to Mexico. I hope she doesn't eat for 25 days while immigration refuses to budge.

Answer 2

Dude, I wouldnt exactly call a hunger strike a diet. Not eating for prolonged periods can be potentially harmful to her health.

However, other than bringing some local attention back to the immigration problem her hunger strike isnt going to work.

I dont think the national news is even reporting on this? And officials said they are going to deport her even if she's inside a church. So, in answer to your question, I guess "enforcement" is still alive and well seeing as how they plan on deporting the mother and child regardless of her protest.

Answer 3

A 25 day hunger strike huh ? Whats next she threatens to hold her breath till she turns blue ?
Take her criminal azz to jail and after she servers her sentence ,then deport her and make sure her son goes with her . She has pimped the USA and the liberal media long enough.

Baby:

Illegal Immigrant Seeks Church Sanctuary To Avoid Deportation
Woman, 7-Year-Old Son Plan To Stay In West Side Church

POSTED: 1:28 pm CDT August 15, 2006
UPDATED: 1:59 pm CDT August 15, 2006

CHICAGO -- An activist for illegal immigrants refused to show up for deportation Tuesday and instead claimed sanctuary in a Chicago church.

Elvira Arellano, 31, had been ordered to show up at Homeland Security's office in the Loop, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

Arellano, who has been in the United States for nine years, took her young son to the St. Adalbert United Methodist Church at 2716 West Division. She is the president of a group that lobbies for the rights of families who face deportation. Her 7-year-old son is a U.S. citizen, according to the report.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Arellano will be considered a fugitive if she refuses to surrender.

Arellano said she is prepared to stay inside the church until ICE agents arrest her.

Officials pointed out that Arellano has been deported once already and has also been convicted of using a fake Social Security number. She was arrested in 2002 in a post Sept. 11 illegal immigrant roundup at O'Hare.

Arellano has in the past received several stays of deportation, thanks in part to the help of local U.S. congressmen, and has been a vocal advocate for illegal immigrants.

Answer 4

If I were the police chief in that town I would pay three random citizens $20 each to go in that church, grab the b*tch, and throw her out onto the street where the cops will make the arrest. Then we'll drive her back to Mexico in a Honda Ridgeline (no use using a decent car to transport a criminal) where she belongs.

Answer 5

A 25 day hunger strike.......I didn't think hunger strikes had a time limit. Long enough to get sick or to be able to pose for another pitiful shot in front of the Virgin Mary. Her psychological tactics don't work. They do more against her than for her.

Answer 6

It is a disgrace that she is still here and no one is doing anything about it. She can stay on a hunger strike as long as she wants. She has no right to be in this country.

Answer 7

i can't believe shes still here. if you or i commit a crime do you think the feds would sit there quietly and let us live in peace? no they would have busted in that church and grabbed us. she needs to be deported along with her kid. who cares if shes on a diet. maybe she'll starve herself.

Answer 8

Idiots make headlines. I really hope she starves herself.

Answer 9

I didn't know that - BTW, who's Elviro Arellano?

Answer 10

Ship her home Fed-Ex ground.