Elvira Arellano, a Mexican woman whose yearlong stay inside a Chicago church made her a lightning rod in the nation's immigration debate, on Sunday returned to the sanctuary, saying she plans to live there until a hearing later this year when she will ask again to be allowed to stay.Just a reminder to Republicans in the House who think Obama will "enforce" immigration laws.
“For me, this is my house,” Arellano said in Spanish after the service at Adalberto United Methodist Church. “I consider it my home.”
Her journey back to the city after being deported to Mexico in 2007 began last week, when she crossed into the U.S. with her sons, 5-month-old Emiliano and 15-year-old Saul, along with dozens of mostly young deportees near San Diego to protest U.S. immigration laws and deportation practices.
A two-day detention led to the scheduling of an immigration hearing for September, when she can again plead her case to stay in the U.S., said her attorney, Chris Bergin. In the meantime,
Arellano was allowed to travel and arrived in Chicago on Sunday.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Famous Illegal Immigrant Is Back Flouting The Law: Immigration protester back at Chicago church that sheltered her
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