Meet the new Elvira Arellano
Another defiant deportation evader has stepped in to “pick up the torch” that illegal alien activist Elvira Arellano left behind. Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation? Which would the presidential candidates choose? Will the feds let this drag out like they did with Arellano–making a national mockery of our deportation laws?:
Mexican woman says she is “picking up the torch” from another illegal resident who became a symbol for immigration reform when she took shelter in a Chicago church for a year before being deported.
Flor Crisostomo, 28, who paid a smuggler to drive her across the U.S. border in 2000, spurned a deportation order Monday and moved into Adalberto United Methodist Church.
She worked for IFCO, which was the subject of massive workplace rades in 2006. The Board of Immigration Appeals last year denied Crisostomo’s appeal and told her to leave the United States by Monday.
This is exactly right:
“It will give American citizens a great opportunity to see if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is good at his word on strict immigration enforcement,” said Rosanna Pulido, a spokeswoman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates tougher immigration enforcement.
The move to re-create the same sanctuary situation as Arellano will backfire, Pulido said.
“This tactic is ineffective,” she said. “This is creating more outrage, more bad feelings toward our government and toward people who are aiding and abetting illegals.”
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Only among those paying attention, which I don’t believe is a majority of our nation’s citizens.
Laws are meaningless unless enforced each and every time in a timely manner.
Send her home, back to whence she came.
Quickly.
Go get her now ! And arrest the individuals that are aiding her.
Wonder what the congregation thinks?
Hope they give her a ride to the border.
hehopes ice “fears God” enough?? I thought one wasn’t supposed to fear God
I think the ICE agents should walk right in and grab her and take her to jail. Church or not, you don’t ignore crime. Would cops just decide not to persue a fleeing theif because he ran into a church? No!
This church needs its tax exempt status removed immediately. Then as this is being done, the cops need to walk right in there and arrest her. Then cuff and stuff the church pastor and other leaders who abedding a known criminal. Charge them with obstruction, hindering, and giving shelter to a criminal.
Then the warning will be out. You support law breakers, you will be treated as a law breaker.
ENFORCE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!
If this minister really thinks that God told him to harbor a fugitive and abet breaking federal law he has a screw loose. The use of churches in this manner to avoid lawful enforcement of our laws, and the less than honest “God told us to do this” rhetoric, is exactly the type of behavior that led to my no longer being part of any organized religion.
One way ticket on Mexican Air arriving at gate Elevation 15,000 feet. Watch your step!
These aiding and abeting type churches are not real Christian churches, in my opinion, but dens of political activists. I have a suspicion that that this church not only supports illegal alien criminals and open borders, but very likely also gay marriage and probably even the so called “right to choose” to murder your baby. Of course, this is my guess and my opinion, but i have a feeling I may be right on some, if not all of these.
I didn’t know churches could shield criminals from the law.
Time for this church to lose its tax-exempt status.
Churches should not be allowed to shelter criminals.
You know…render unto caesar and all?
ICE should drive down to the nearest Home Depot and offer $500 to any day laborer who will go into the church and retrieve Flor. The irony would be magnificent!
Duane “Dog” Chapman…doing the work Chuck Norris is too busy to do.
Speaking tongue in check we happen to have a C-130 unit at the Gowen Field Air National Guard Base here in Idaho that could accomplish that easily. To show what a great humanitarian I am I would even give her a working parachute.
But seriously I don’t think the lying crapweasels in DC and their appointed cronies have yet to understand how angry the general populace is becoming over these blatant violations of the rule of law and this country’s sovereignty.
As far as the church goes shame on them for violation of the scripture “give those things unto Cesar which are Cesar’s and those things unto God which are God’s.” I would love to see them lose their tax exemption status over their blatant violation of our (Cesar’s) laws.
This reminds me of the story last week of the gang bangers holding their weapons and taunting the police on You Tube.
They were arrested.
Is this the person to telephone in Chicago with the tip?
Glenn Triveline, Field Office Director
Office of Detention and Removal Operations
10 W. Congress, Suite 4000
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: 312-347-2400
The question for Mr. Triveline:
This is the same argument which hampered our attempts to get Mookie in Iraq. Of course it didn’t take long after the Iraqis were up to speed in the military for them to show us how it is done.
There is no law that says you can’t enter a church or place of worship and drag out a crimminal. See the word is crimminal. Illegal. I wonder if this would have worked for Michael Vick?
Boomer:
Unless you were referring to Cesar Chavez.
Quoting from the posted story … emphasis is mine …
OK … let me get this straight … she was told to leave … WTH kind of enforcement is that … she loses in court … is not deported by the authorities but instead it is left up to her to leave the country …
Give.Me.A.Break …
Does anyone really think these illegals are going to leave of their own accord just because a court tells them to? …
They break the law by coming into the USA illegally to begin with … there is no way they are going to suddenly obey the law and leave voluntarily … She should have immediately been taken into custody and been on the next bus load of illegals headed south and out of the country …
The Federal government should tell the folks in Chicago that they have 72 hours to turn her over to the authorities for deportation … failure to do so should result in an immediate halt to all federal funds for violating the law by being a sanctuary city …
As a Methodist church member, I am appalled by their actions. This is the second time they have allowed this. It has made me seriously question my religious affiliations.
The article says she was earning $360 per week, sending $300 back to México to her three poor children, who are the reason she came to the U.S. (It is not clear how they are being supported now, nor how she originally got together enough cash to pay the coyote.) Living with four others in a two-bedroom apartment, at least half of that $60 would have to go to rent. How can one eat on the remaining $30 per week? Could it be…
I smell a case of welfare fraud.
Thanks for the correction! I hate it when I do that.
When the court denied her appeal and told her to leave, why wasn’t she taken from the courtroom to a bus?
We don’t need immigration reform as much as we need immigration enforcement reform.
Not to worry. Revoke the Church Tax exempt status by Executive Order and lets watch the Religious based Radical Political Activism grind to a dead stop!
That will be challenged in court but freezing their assets in the meantime will have the desired effect.
No entity or individual is above the Law of the Land.
Has anyone telephoned Mr. Triveline?
Google Maps and Yahoo Maps both report the distance from his office to the church is about 4.7 miles. It will take a little more than 10 minutes to get there.
Google even has a street level panoramic photograph to scope out the buildings.
According to the United Methodist Church directory, the average worship attendance is 75. So maybe the church is one of the store fronts showing in Google with Ms. Crisostomo’s apartment on the second or third floor.
If she were smart, she would ‘hide’ in a mosque instead of a church…
Is this woman at all concerned with the government of Mexico? Does she see how its a failure on job creation. Does this woman also think that the US could copy Mexico’s immigration policies and therefore deport all illegals? How do the churches in Mexico create prosperity there? Just wondered if there was any thought to this and why is the fear to move back to Mexico? I was raised a Methodist and I never did hear the gospel of Christ preached ( sin repentance etc). The church should get back to basics before trying to be involved in politics. Christ never told the Roman authorities on how to improve the lot of the citizens but to repent of their sins while there is still time.
For Flor Crisostomo, justice delayed is not justice denied. It gives her time to flap her mouth and boast!
For all of us, US citizens, justice is truly denied if Chertoff does NOT act now. Deport her immediately.
So, churches are now haboring illegals?
At my local Baptist church, there is a smaller building that is for the Hispanic population only.
Most are not citizens. I know they want or need a place of worship, but I wonder how many contribute financially to the upkeep.
I wish they would use the same level of force to extract and deport this illegal like when the Clinton administration kidnapped Elian Gonzalez by gun point to send him back to Communist Cuba!!!
I think that people have the mistaken notion that churches have the same rights and protections as embassies. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Tase them all ‘bro, and drag her out kicking and screaming.
Anyone local want to call the Pastor and ask him what God thinks about him breaking the law?
She has money to spend to get herself smuggled to the USA but can’t feed her children? Has three kids she can’t afford? Something smells with this story.
Under English law, at one time, a fugitive from the law could seek shelter in a church (catholic). You could even seek forgiveness, or get a temporary amnesty (to flee the country). I don’t think that it applies today. But, with Jefferson’s “separation of church and state” and politics, I suppose ICE/police are reluctant to get her. Lawyers would flood the area.
Last night I heard that most famous compassionate conservative pronounce the catch and release of illegal immigrants had ended. Would not Elvira II qualify as a catch and release case and if so is this not another WMD caliber Bush truth.
Under Bush, immigration officials are afraid to jeopardize their careers by making a serious effort at enforcement. As I recall, one especially effective supervisor was disciplined some years back under Bush.
# 33 It is against the law to seek sanctuary in a house of worship in the US. We don’t have sanctuary this isn’t Mexico!
“Rule of law”? What’s that??? Never heard of it.
Wonder what would happen if she took shelter inside a mosque..
Hmmm…Most Christians are opposed to illegal immigration.
If this were my church, I would stop making donations and find a new church.
If enough members were opposed to this, and the church started losing money, I bet they’d drive her to the Mexican border.
The law is with her. Here, in the land of Barak Obama, the following bills have been passed:
HB 60 / PUBLIC ACT 093-0007 In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens
SB 1623 / PUBLIC ACT 094-0389 Agencies Must Accept Foreign Fake ID
HB 1744 / PUBLIC ACT 095-0138 Intimidate Illinois Employers From Using E-Verify
Once again – this ain’t 14th century France, the bell-ringer is dead, and the concept of Church Sanctuary is null and void. Pick her up and toss her out.
I hope no ones really expects any action be taken by Jorge’ Bush’s administration to obey U.S. Immigration laws. bubba has Jorge on this one, bubba was able to deport a 5 yr Cuban…it took a raid in the middle of nite by armed officers but by god they got rid of that desperado. His family should have taken him to the nearest church.
When Flor Crisostomo was realeased from court and ditected to deprt on her own…i bet she was so upset…”damn i have to go home, then sneak back across the boarder…taking all that time when I could be committing more crime in America.”
$1200 a month for 3 kids in Mexico, those are living pretty damn good on that kind of money down there. Mom lives on $240 a month…please now…and how much government aide is she getting?
Jorge at work, and Juan McAmnesty waiting to keep it going.
Why don’t these people stay home & make their demands of their own government? “Carry the torch” in Mexico.
Thank God OK has/is no sanctuary for illegals.
Andy you are the only one besides me who expects and demand that Mexico do something to its economy. What Mexico do if the USA becomes as poor as Mexico? Come on Mexicans demand something from your government.