MEXICO CITY -- The 8-year-old son of deported immigrant activist Elvira Arellano was reunited with her Friday at Mexico City's airport.
Arellano said she wants her son, Saul, a U.S. citizen, to go to school in her home state of Michoacan so he can learn Spanish.
Saul, whose first trip to Mexico was in November to ask the Mexican Congress to lobby Washington to stop his mother's deportation, received a Mexican passport from his mother as proof of his newly obtained dual citizenship.
They plan to renew the boy's U.S. passport, something he could not do in the United States in the absence of his mother.
Arellano, 32, who was in the U.S. illegally for several years, took sanctuary at Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church in defiance of a deportation order. She lived there with her son for a year.
She left the church in August to attend rallies in Los Angeles and was arrested and deported within hours to Tijuana.
Saul, who traveled from Chicago with Adalberto United's pastor, the Rev. Walter Coleman, had little to say to reporters. His mother said the boy told her that "he wants to keep fighting so I can go back with him to the United States."
Arellano said she wanted her son by her side as she fights for the legalization of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and for the rights of illegal Central American immigrants in Mexico.
"In this battle he was the one who kept me on my feet," Arellano said. "If I want to keep fighting from here, I need him with me."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-son1sep01,1,5705404.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
I’m sure it wasn’t her idea to bring her son to Mexico, otherwise he would have come with her when she left.
Article states that she wants him to learn spanish? Yeah right, I haven’t heard a word of English out of her mouth!
Also, if she gets made an ambassador, is there any way the US could block her from returning? She is a criminal after all.
The more news this unwed woman gets the more real Americans are going to resist. Doesn’t the criminal illegal understand she has done nothing but leave a bad impression? She is nobody! Keep talking Elvira! You damage your own cause. You deserve nothing from the United States of America!
2007-09-01 06:56:17 · 7 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
This women broke the law not once but two times or more. She was determined to have her son born in the USA so he would be a citizen. The law that made this possible should be changed. A baby born to an illegal alien should not automatically become an American citizen and then the issue of "splitting up the family" would not be an issue
2007-09-01 09:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by Karl N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I simply wish to grasp why is it those illegals feel as soon as they have got a child in her case a baby with out a father after which she needs to lash out at us for now not assisting her breaking our legislation. She was once stuck utilizing fake files and now portrays herself because the sufferer.Its practically like file fraud is a ordinary aspect of the Mexican tradition as they see most effective their unfastened trip has ended after which blame America given that her baby has no father and just a mom and the girl bought unfastened cash, her baby attends a personal college in Mexico, she got here out of this with such a lot of supporters throwing cash at her and paying her hire and different expenditures.All centered on she broke the regulation and the regulation gained.
2016-09-05 20:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Svetlana, I will contact my Congressman.
We need much tougher immigration laws and more enforcement officers internally.
There is no reason that a common criminal like this woman should have been allowed to stay in this country as long as she did.
Hillary Clinton is *much* tougher on enforcing our immigration laws than Bush.
Things are going to change when we get rid of that POS Bush!
2007-09-01 07:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by tom p 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Once again it's all about her, the needs and wants of her son be damn. As times passes, and the Mexican government can longer use her as a propaganda prop for amnesty for her and others in the USA, she will fade away as a very sad women that made all the wrong choices for most of her life.
2007-09-01 07:02:47 · answer #4 · answered by jean 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She needs to keep her ride safe right now and the easiest way is to keep him with her. Not over yet..I swiped this link from another question I answered. Time to contact your congressmen relentlessy over this!
2007-09-01 07:06:30 · answer #5 · answered by I See You 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
who cares what she does as long as she gets the correct documents if she decides to come back here.
2007-09-01 08:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't need to know anything more about this woman except when she crosses the border again.
2007-09-01 06:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋