Her name is Elvira Arellano and she is an immigrant rights activist living in Chicago…she is also an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

I should elaborate…

Ms. Arellano is a previously deported fugitive who illegally entered the U.S. ten years ago and–after several extensions–was supposed to report to immigration authorities yesterday to be deported to Mexico…again.

In 1997, Arellano illegally entered the United States, was apprehended and deported. A couple of days later, she snuck back in.

Then she spent about two years in Oregon before heading for the Windy City. In 2002, she was busted for using a fake social security card while working at O’Hare International Airport.

At some point during the journey, she had an anchor baby…I mean a son. Then she started an organization called United Latino Family–a pro-illegal immigration group in Chicago.

As recently as July, she was part of a vigil or protest…you know, one of those situations where a gaggle of illegal immigrants gather in some busy downtown area and disrupt the convenience of everybody else in a vain attempt to convince immigration authorities not to deport somebody.

In this case it was 26 illegal immigrants but in any event…during the blessed event she made this comment:

“We want these workers to stay in the country legally,” said Elvira Arellano, president of United Latino Family, which works with families potentially split by deportation. “They have every right since they have worked hard, paid taxes and contributed to this nation’s economy.” [Vigil slated to halt deportations--26 immigrants caught in sweep are focus Chicago Tribune 7/28/06]

Then it was her turn to be deported…(eh-hem)again.

BUT…instead of reporting to immigration authorities Tuesday morning as ordered, Arellano and her son decided to seek refuge in a local church.

Although holed up in a church, supposedly shielded from the outside world or more specifically La Migra, she has managed to hold several press conferences during which she has made some rather interesting remarks:

From Church shelters immigrant; feds vow to arrest her by Esther J. Cepeda and Kendrick Marshall Chicago Sun Times

“We’ll stay here as long as necessary, until Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Dick Durbin introduce my private bill and approve my extension.”

Ooh…her private bill. What a nauseating (but typical) sense of entitlement!

Then she said:

“This village is raising its voice and making itself heard,” said Arellano. “Our people are not the same as they were before — we put [legislators] in office and the registered voters of this community can take them out.”

Oh no she didn’t!

She breaks the law (several times) and yet somehow feels that her position is righteous enough to issue threats?

Good grief, you would think she would have enough sense to at least try an appeal for sympathy–mouthy garbage like this just makes me pray for a heavily armed S.W.A.T team to storm to church, throw her to ground with as much force as possible, gag her, cuff her and physically toss her over the fence back into Mexico.

Ooh, here’s my favorite quote from our damsel in distress:

“I’m strong, I’ve learned from Rosa Parks — I’m not going to go to the back of the bus. The law is wrong.”

I love it–LOVE IT–when illegal immigrant rights people compare their plight to the days of slavery and/or Black segregation!

Yep, a group of White Americans went down to Mexico and rounded up 20 million people against their will and forced them to relocate to the United States where they received excellent educational opportunities, free medical care and tax-free income.

That’s exactly what happened with African Americans, right? Just ask them…

Finally, Ms. Arellano tossed out this zinger:

“If they come for me in this place they’ll have to face God. We have video cameras and we’ll show how the federals violate the house of God.”

Oh yeah, and I’m sure God just loves it when people use Him (or His name) to further their criminal activity…I hear big favs include Jim Bakker and Charles Manson.

Federal authorities have been working with her attorney for quite some time to organize a civilized removal process but Arellano had a different plan…she made it clear in that last comment:

If she is to be deported, she is going to make our feds look as bad as possible. You know, hide in a church of all places and force them to come in and get her.

She’ll probably stage a giant boo-hoo scene (in front of her well placed video cameras) so the MSM can plaster photos of her and her son crying and clinging to a priest a la Elian Gonzalez.

I know I’ll want to see the video–but only because it will give me hope.

I have an interview scheduled with Melanie Morgan and Lee Rodgers, on August 18th , 7 a.m. Pacific Time, on KSFO 560 AM, San Francisco. You can also hear it on the internet here.

Via David Orland’s blog Faute de Pire, the content of the story is important, but the amazing thing is the title:

At the time of Damilola’s death [a notorious murder in which a ten-year-old Nigerian boy was stabbed to death] the ethnic composition of north Peckham in Southwark, where the estate lies, was 43.4% white, 15.9% black Caribbean, 26.6% black African, 4.1% black other, 7.9% Asian and 2.2% other. Today, in the borough of Southwark as a whole, about a third of the entire population comes from a black or ethnic minority “community”, as official figures so tendentiously put it, when the problem is precisely the lack of community. “More than 100 languages are spoken in our schools and 43% of our pupils speak English as an additional language,” says the council.

This shows, as the council says, a rich diversity and for many years in this country we have been required by the progressive establishment to celebrate this diversity. Yet such extreme diversity is quite obviously at odds with community. It is at odds with the development of shared culture and shared purpose, of shared language in shared school rooms and the creation of the ties that bind a community together.

To throw together such a hugely various collection of people from all over the world, in such numbers, from all kinds of different cultures speaking different languages, is to create a miserable, murderous Tower of Babel. So it has proved in Southwark and in other places like it. The result is racial tension of all kinds, bullying, crime and fear.[Our murderous migrant Tower of Babel , By Minette Marrin, Sunday Times, August 13, 2006]

Ah yes…September is Hispanic Heritage Awareness Month and silly me, I almost forgot!

The thing is, living in California it is rather surprising that this ethnic group even needs such an event–the everday goings-on at the local grocery store could easily be mistaken for “Hispanic awareness” festivities.

(In fact, you can find live Mariachi bands playing in the produce departments of several grocers–a truly unnerving experience which I imagine could only be enjoyed by the hearing impaired. I have also seen pinatas set up for the kiddies in the meat department…because everyone knows the only thing which could make shopping with snot-nosed, temper-tantrum throwing children more enjoyable is to give them sugar…and giant sticks to bang around.)

In any event…this year, the forthcoming celebration is to be noted by what else? Protest marches!

Nativo Lopez, director of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, is organizing a pro-illegal immigrant march in Long Beach, CA and well, everywhere else in the nation. Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Dallas and New York…

I think it’s brilliant!

What better way to highlight Hispanic Heritage than to focus on the fact that an overwhelming majority of Hispanics in America are here illegally?

Ooh I can just see all those Mexican flags now…and the reconquista signs…and the “AMERICANS GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY” signs –I can hear the si, se puede chant…the crowds speckled with Mechista morons…all those wonderful images of Hispanic Heritage.

Just in time for the elections…

You may recall the wonderful Pennsylvania town of Hazleton which earlier this summer passed a city ordinance designed to stop the mass influx of illegal immigants into this tiny mining community.

Business owners who employed illegal immigrants or property owners who rented apartments (or homes) to illegal immigrants would be hit with a stiff fine. All city business was to be conducted in English…and only in English.

A city council of five (actually four as one member voted against the measure) lead by one very brave Mayor by the name of Lou Barletta, set out to save a town–and interestingly enough, launched a nationwide movement.

Now it seems the city of Hazleton is being sued…not something that should surprise anyone as it certainly does not Mayor Barletta.

Cesar Perales, president and CEO of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is suing Hazleton on the basis of jurisdiction. According the the Los Angeles Times,

[the lawsuit is]arguing principally that the local governments are violating the supremacy clause of the Constitution by attempting to regulate immigration, which is a federal matter.” [Pennsylvania town is sued over immigrant ordinance--But other cities have picked up on idea
by Ellen Barry, Los Angeles Times August 16, 2006]

From the same article, Barletta makes the point that in spite of the lawsuit, the purpose of the measure is already having a successful impact.

“It’s been incredible. We have literally seen people loading up mattresses and furniture and leaving the city en masse,” he said. “That was our goal, to have a city of legal immigrants who are all paying taxes. It’s already been effective.”

So far five other communities have folllowed the Hazleton , PA path and 17 others have started the process.

Why not do the same for your community–a copy of the measure can be found here.