Elvira Arellano: Still going
Open-borders militant deportee Elvira Arellano –whom the Associated Press now dubs “a Mexican migrant-rights advocate”–may have been kicked out of the U.S., but that isn’t stopping her from continuing to lobby on behalf of illegal aliens still in the U.S. She’s been on a hunger strike in Mexico protesting workplace raids in the U.S.:
A Mexican migrant-rights advocate deported from the U.S. said she began a hunger strike Friday to push her government to demand its citizens receive better treatment north of the border.
Elvira Arellano, a former illegal migrant who turned to activism during a yearlong fight to stay in the U.S., said she was holding the hunger strike “because I want our government to listen, to act, to defend our migrant families.”
Speaking to a group of Mexican migrant activists, Arellano decried U.S. efforts to jail illegal migrants, put up security fences on the border and step up deportations.
“Is Mexico prepared to receive all of these deported people and their families?” Arellano said on the opening day of the “First Parliament of Mexican Migrant Leaders Who Live in the U.S.”
“Is it prepared to guarantee an education to their children, who are U.S. citizens? Or is it prepared to defend them against all these attacks?” she said.
The two-day conference, gathering Mexican-led activist groups and U.S.-based non-governmental organizations, kicked off on the floor of Mexico’s lower house of Congress. Along with opposing aggressive anti-immigrant measures in the U.S., participants are asking Mexico to reform its own laws by decriminalizing the migration of Central Americans and others to Mexico.
They also insist Mexico work to improve economic and social conditions at home to stem the tide of migration.
Gee, wouldn’t that be novel?
P.S.: Where’s Saul?
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Meanwhile…O’Hare workers arrested in alleged fake ID scheme:
Federal and local law enforcement agents raided several warehouses Wednesday at O’Hare International Airport and arrested 24 workers who were allegedly in the country illegally and using phony security badges for jobs on the tarmac, cargo areas and other restricted zones.
Also arrested Wednesday in a probe federal authorities said “identified national security vulnerabilities” were two company managers at Ideal Staffing Solutions Inc., a temporary employment agency in Bensenville. The firm allegedly hired the workers and provided them with deactivated airport security badges that allowed them to work at O’Hare, immigration officials said. Ideal Staffing managers also knowingly allowed workers to lie about their identities on airport security applications, officials alleged. They said they’re still investigating whether there are more related security risks at the airport.
“Most of these workers loaded pallets, freight and meals for companies doing business at O’Hare,” including commercial airlines such as United Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Qantas Airways, said Elissa A. Brown, special agent-in-charge of the Chicago office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“The government can’t be too vigilant when it comes to airport employees gaining access to secure areas, especially if they lie about their identities and we have no idea who they are, and what their true intentions may be,” Brown said.
Arellano was arrested at O’Hare in 2002.
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This woman is nothing more than a seflish ‘B’ She has a child whom she is torturing through these antics, he should be first and formost in her life.
Who does she think she is?
Ms. Arellano’s arrogance is what gets my goat. She entered the US illegally had a child here and somehow she thinks the US owes her something. She would have garnered more sympathy had she humbled herself and realized that being a US citizen is a lagniappe for those who rightfully seek it. It isn’t for those who think it is their right to be here because they got knocked up and managed to circumvent the system.
She is the epitome of the entitlement mindset. If she wants to become a US citizen – there’s some paperwork she needs to complete and a waiting list. Get.In.Line.
Get.Out.Of.Here. Pun intended.
I think she’s now on her 18th minute of fame. So, she’s gone over her limit and is intruding on someone elses 15 minutes.
I would think that she should be more concerned about her son. Instead, like Cindy Sheehan, she’s turned into a media whore.
Guess what – the US isn’t prepared OR WILLING to receive all of you.
Only by a legal mistake which grants citizenship to anyone whose mother was able to sneak 2 feet inside the border before delivering her child…. THAT constitutes citizenship? What’s wrong with that picture?
Many of us are prepared to defend against attacks – on this side of the border – yes.
I can’t get over how arrogant this woman is that she believes she is entitled to US citizenship because she violated our immigration laws. She needs to shut up and take care of her son. It is time to end the anchor baby loophole in the 14th Amendment, Section 1:
I find it interesting there is confusion on the ratification of this amendment that dooms us to having to provide citizenship to those sneaking across our borders to download their children.
Also thought I should provide the following link:
http://www.constitution.org/afterte_.htm
What a bonehead! If she had any true outrage she would call on her fellow Mexicans to address their grievances towards their own government. Demand to know why the heck they can’t be a first-world country as opposed to a third-world kleptocracy. And if they can’t get the Mexican Congress to cooperate call upon our government to help them do it instead of remaining our wards of the state. It’s time to get off the dole and demand self-respect for Mexico. Our U.S. government is not much help as it spoils the reprobate child that is Mexico with freebies. What kind of friend is Mexico if it keeps bumming money off of us, doesn’t pay us back, crashes our home and then says we are mean when we hesitate? A bum. A no good bum. The problem is that this bum is our North American black sheep brother and we take care of family despite the hardship to us. We would ask our sister to the north for help but she is tied up with Quebec headaches and changes the subject on us.
Mexico go fix yourself!
One person in a country of bazillions of people, starving herself to influence her government’s policy on emigration from Mexico to the U.S. Well, that’s what happens when you’ve been treated like you’re the center of the universe for all those years. Now she’s just a lonely, pathetic needle in a haystack of all her fellow countrymen. Excuse me, but I think the Mexican government has more important problems to fix than to care about the grumble in her belly.
BTW: Today’s “Word of the Day” is:
kvetch \KVECH\, adjective:
1. To complain habitually.
noun:
1. A complaint.
2. A habitual complainer.
How fitting is that?!
Mexican hunger strike = Not eating the worm in the Mezcal bottle
Only due to a very loose reading of a law, sister.
Mexico can have them, ready or not.
Not. Our. Problem.
Funny, when I lived in Mexico I had no rights to own property, no rights to open a business and no rights to speak English. Maybe we should take after Mexico in this instance. Although I would not advocate the policy of robbing, raping and torturing illegal aliens who come into this country as they do on their Southern Border. A fence would be just fine as long as we defended it.
IMHO
Interesting in the picture her t-shirt states “Who Would Jesus Deport?” (1) is that “Hay-zus” or does she mean Jesus Christ? and (2) I love how the left has no problems invoking Christianity/Jesus when it seems to serve them as victims, yet they refuse to acknowledge it in many other normal capacities…
Hunger strike? The “Toast of Tijuana” is probably just crash-dieting to fit into holiday gowns for upcoming fetes.
I sure would love to see a Cleanse A Colon for Amnesty one day. CACA has such a nice ring.
No rights to speak English outside of my home I should say. Sorry about that, hit submit instead of preview.
On a hunger strike, huh! So, the next time we see her she will be about 20lbs heavier.
Dear El.
Enjoy your hunger strike. I think the record was set by some IRA gansta, and he went 73 days, so you got a long way to go. No doubt, the Guinness people are watching to see if you can break it. Good luck to ya and don’t ya cheat, now.
And she “writes” a weekly column-communist screed, or someone writes it for her, in this New York newspaper: http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/ColumnistasDetail.aspx?SectionId=236
Hey woman…what in THIS IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY don’t you understand? Just shut the “f” up! We don’t want you here!
Hmmm… just how blatant does the MEXICAN GOVERNMENT have to get in meddling with the internal affairs of our country?
Or… do they already think the NAU is in effect?
MM seems concerned about Mexicans with fake security badges. Are there reports of Mexicans being involved in terrorism?
Well, the woman is a bit out there. The only way Mexico can “protect” its people in America is simple. War and let there be no USofA anymore. Mexico doesn’t have that ability, in short the more militant groups of Illigal migrents could make life hard on the US with partisian actions. Kinda what the Germans living around other European nations did in WW2. All it would do is kill many American Civilians in Mexican dominated area’s and led to a lasting paranoia to all Hispanic people, and Mexico’s end.
Personnally The UN and mexico has no say in interinal Affiars no more than we do in Mexico. The only reasson anyone listens to America is not out of a Moral right, but a massive military capability. But that being said to alot of you saying that they should do the paper work, some of you may have done it others may not. The best sollution is a Marshel Plan. Hell Mexico might as well be a warzone recovery area. Do it like in Europe, build up the native Economy with help of US companies and overseers and hire the natives. America’s coffers and international Prestige grows, Mexico is stabilized and it keeps people like Miss Arellano in Mexico where they seem to wish to stay.
Its not like it used to be. Come in, speak english resonablly, have proof of a place to say and pledge and oath of Loyality. And of course no criminal Record of a serious manner.
Now adays, well currently you need several documents, the averge cost to get them all up is around 1800 dollars. And you have to get them all at once. Also you must have a sponser who has had an “acceptable” income for the past three years in current tax returns for 3 years. No criminal convictions of any sort.
From that the amount needed is around 21-5 thousand for two people a year, and 7 thousand per additional person. Which is actully far higher than what US services say is the min. needed for social services. For instance the US SS Services says a family of three should make it fine on 19-20 thousand. And in the end you can spend all that money meet all the criteria and still be told no, thrown out. And also worse yet for a family if you come LEGALLY and the paper work takes longer than 6 months and your told no(as it often does), you can not for any reasson enter the US again for 10 years. And in the end thats to be just a resident, after a few years and another thousand bucks (current Citizenship fee is $800, not taking into acount processing fees) The current system is highly biased in favor of the Rich.
My Great Grand Father was ethnically German, he came after WW1 was a soldier in the German Army, with little education and had not a penny to his name. He passed the loyality test and landed a job in US Indian Sercives in North Carolina, and rose to one of the highest spots, even married the Chiefs daughter. Money, and precived education is not a meassure of Loyality, Ability, OR Merit.
opps some corrections “And in the end thats to be just a resident, after a few years and another thousand bucks to gain Citizenship.(Current Citizenship fee is $800, not taking into acount processing fees)Not The current system is highly biased in favor of the Rich.”
And with my (Most Do) comment I ment that the processing normally takes longer than the legal time to stay in country, even though your legally not allowed to leave. If you pass, good, if you don’t, well you’ll land at the nearest airport or bus station/port of your home nation Reguardless of where your from in said nation.
LGM, short answer – yes!
Is she a friend of Joy Behar?
Hey AP, how about calling her an illegal alien criminal. That’s what they call people like this in Mexico.
Fat chance.
Once againg LGM, pull your head out of the sand, do you have any idea of the breach of security here and the potential for these law breakers to be used for terrorism?
Is the U.S. prepared to receive all these illegal immigrants?
Now let’s change a few words here and what would you do?
What kind of friend is Joe if it keeps bumming money off of us, doesn’t pay us back, crashes our home and then says we are mean when we hesitate? A bum. A no good bum. The problem is that this bum is our black sheep brother and we take care of family despite the hardship to us.
In this case Mexico is more like an alcoholic brother. The U.S. is like the enabler, Mexico is the stuppering drunk that bangs on your door at 2:00 am and wake’s you and your kid’s out of that perfect sleep.
This is what I did to my alcoholic brother when he did that for the umptenth time and I had enough.
Brother: BANG!!! BANG!!!! BANG!!!!!
Me: Going to fridge to get gallon of water, get pitcher, dump water in pitcher
Brother: BANG!!! BANG!!!! BANG!!!!!
Me: Walk to door, open door, throw pithcer of water in his face, push him away from my door and step outside.
Brother: WT!@#$
Me: Dude give me your keys.
Brother: What did ya do that for. Hands me keys
Me: Now go home and don’t come back till you get your self straightened up and don’t ever ask me for another dime, I’ll bring your car over in the morning.
Brother: I’m not walking home.
Me: Walk in door and close it.
Brother: Walks home
Brother: Decides he likes me and my kid’s better than alcohol.
The End
Mexico could be a prosperous nation if they would get it together but it is up to it’s own people to take the reigns, the problem is the people are to busy coming to the U.S. and sucking the life out of our financial system. Something for nothing attitude.
People like this woman are the problem and American’s helping her attempt to subvert the American system, Just another liberal poster child.
LGM- No but there are reports of Mexicans being involved in Drug and Human Trafficking oh and Gang Violence ect…The Terrorist don’t have a monopoly on CRIME.
Elvira – let me know how that hunger strike works out for you, hon.
You might try the Cindy Sheehan Hunger Method – lattes and ice cream smoothies three times a day. You might even gain some weight on your hunger strike.
And Cindy Sheehan is the Secretary of Defense…
Elvira…if my parents came in the legal way, why can’t you?
As far as I’m concerned, keep this bimbo front and center in the news. The effect of her 15 minutes of fame has only helped the pro-enforcment side while undermining the pro-illegal/amnesty side.
It’s obvious this woman doesn’t have a clue about this country or her own for that matter. She thinks that another country can make another country do it bidding. I know why she will never become a legal citizen here she will never pass the citizenship class. It’s also, obvious she can’t distinguish legal from illegal which proves we don’t need immigrants like her in this country that are going to contribute anything but, adding methane to the US environment.
The invasion from the southern border bothers me a hell of a lot more than any Islamic twit with a bomb belt. I can avoid malls, football games, and other gatherings that the jihadists might target, but how do we avoid the dastardly Hispanicification of our country when the administration(s) choose to do abso-freaking-lutely nothing about it?
We can [wishfully] fight a real fight, but the slow induction of a disease? I think we may not be so steeled against it.
#30 that say’s it all. Legal is the key word.
It just amazes me that people like LGM, get on this site and demonstrate a lack of observation. It has been all over the news for two days now about Mexican druggies/coyotes planning to smuggle in terrorist into this country.
LGM fails to even recognise that MS-13, though a gang of punks. They fit a type of terrorist. That of the criminal terrorist. Useing fraud, threats and murder to get thier way. Hmm sounds a litle like the muhammid croud.
To the topic at hand. This woman is delusional. Unfortunately she has a following in this country of even more deluded people. Those who have no idea of the concept of the rule of law.
She worries if Mexico can accept back all these deportees? The reality is no, thats why they sent them here in the first place.
To solve the immigration problem three things have to be done. One enforce the law. Two punish those who break the law. Finally three, SECURE THE FRICKEN BOARDER.
#20, T-421, the answer is not another Marshall Plan. Mexico is the second largest source of foreign oil (at nearly $100 per barrel) and wants to replace Canada as the first supplier. (See NYT of today re Dept. of Commerce’s report on long term oil supply.)
I am in Mexico as I write this. The money sloshing around goes to the elites that run this country, stiffle competition, and carry out and cover up the murders of those who want to change things. (See the murders of Luis Donaldo Colossio and Cardinal Ocampo in the 1990s, crimes which cannot be solved despite everyone knowing who is responsible.)
The richest man on the planet is a Mexican, Carlos Slim. He replaced Bill Gates in that rank earlier this year. He became so wealthy in part on an anti-competitive telephone/internet market based on his ownership of Telmex, the phone company here. $15-$20 basic internet connection in the US? It’s about $70 per month here. Send more money to these guys? No, they have not be devastated by a war or genocide, they have done this to themselves.
Mexico is not our friend. Mexico is just one more
welfare recipient of the U.S. Why is she demanding
better treatment from us? She should be demanding
better treatment from Mexico for IT’S CITIZENS!!!!!
lgm writes,
Besides the examples already given here, what about the havoc they wreak on our social services infrastructure? What about the identity theft? The killing of innocents while driving drunk after sneaking back into the country? Changing the argument doesn’t magically make something “illegal” turn into something “legal”.
lgm – I believe a few of the 9/11 hijackers received fake Drivers Licenses from Mexican Illegal Immigrants which allowed them status AND ability to sign up for FLIGHT CLASSES.
This woman has got some chutzpah. I do feel bad for her son.
@36, true, but with a Marshall plan we could gain favored trade status over that oil. Better us than the Europeans, Russians, or Chinese. Besides its three options I can see.
One we let Mexico try and fail to fix the problems as it has since the mid 1800’s. In the End that only makes a group of people whos failure in goverment and defacto a socity will try and gain the Fruits anyone thats Richer than them.(US, as they do now) This can be done by Mass mirgration, followed by social dominace, or Military Conflict. Only stopable by Force, which you have to question if much of the US can get behind. Some yes, some No.
Option 2, give that Mexico’s problems mainly its poor tax system effects the poor. This could end up with in time a new Chavez Goverment, or the PRC who has been trying to get a foothold in the Region could sponser a Communist Revolution. Many of Mexico’s poor may just buy into that.
Option 3. They arn’t able to fix the situation, and if they can’t they’ll come here. Unless we want to militarize the border with Shoot to kill orders. We already know we have elements in this nation that cry when we used land mines and flame based weapons. Given the greed of politions how long till a new liberal Goverment is elected? Only way to stop that is Genocide of the Left, or a Militarian rule. So Why don’t we do it, get some milk from it like we did the Panama Cannel, hell just Annex the whole Area, send in money, jobs, change the native tounge to English. Maybe a bit to far.
Never the less, this isn’t the problem in some nation far from us. Its Next Door. You can’t say “Oh well there fault, not mine.” Recall that things like this led to Barbarian and Germanic tribes entering the Roman Empire, tell me how did that work out for Rome? The Greatest Nation in Terms of Economics and Military Power in its age, actully the way the US is heading the likeness is uncanny.
Elvira Arellano?
I don’t give a rat’s posterior what she thinks or says or does, as long as she thinks/says/does them down there.
It’s all Bush’s fault. Ask Elio Gonzales!
On a hunger strike…
One can only hope she carries it to it’s ultimate conclusion.
Rome was killed by plague and rot from within. It was
discussed and decided against after our war with them, to forego annexing Mexico. What gets me is..
look at the countries in South America. They are not
working so great either. What is it with the Hispanics?
I keep saying that if we gave them the entire US and
we all moved to Mexico, I wouldn’t give it 5 years
before they started moving enmasse down there with
us. Mexicans cannot run a successful country as long
as they still have the old caste system and a culture
of bribery and general corruption.
That’s easy, Senora Elvira Arellano. You!!!
Too bad your libertine priest doesn’t know his Bible from the Book of Marx. Otherwise, he would have sat you and your fellow illegals down and explained what St. Paul was talking about when he wrote the following:
So the US rules are our own by God’s permission. Mexicans need to pray a little harder that their own govt will reform and be more like us. Now Begone!
I just served a court paper on a male mexican illegal filed by his live in girlfriend to establish paternity. the purpose of course is to get financial aid from the state and ultimately to legitimize the man who produced a little bastard. The babyh boy is cute and friendly. The girl wants state aid and the man wants to stay and make money. This is how the system is broken. Soon the state will kick in funds, issue some kind of ID to allow Juan to work and produce more babies. He will leave this arrangement and leave the woman and child and get lost in the vast left wing conspiracy!
You’re illegal; I could careless about you.
Mexico who has a populations similar to Japan and has lots more resources can’t create a first world economy? Do they want to conquer the USA and make it 3rd world as well? Both Germany and Japan came from rubble after world war two and yet are thriving. What is Mexico’s excuse? If they can afford such huge families then are actually are not that poor. The USA can’t absorb the whole population there and who wants this nation to have 700 million?
Boo-freaki’-hoo.
Wah wah wah.
The US is evil, mexico is problem free.
STAY THERE then.
Or, do the RIGHT thing and APPLY for citizenship.
But quit complaining.
You had the good life. You worked illegally in the US for a long time. You didn’t pay taxes. Your kid was delivered at no cost to you. His education was covered by my taxes. If not for the fact that you did all that by breaking the law on a daily basis, well we might be okay. If not for the fact that you taught your kids that laws were better broken, we’d be okay. If not for the fact that you refuse to work on improving condition in your home country, Mexico, and continue to criticize the country that you stole from and lied to, we’d be okay.
But you are a criminal.
I would no sooner take advice from a mob boss on how to revise our criminal justice system than I would take advice on how to fix immigration from an illegal criminal like you.
That is all.
How’s Mexico? Chicago is cold.
Enjoy the sun.