I must admit, I was shocked when immigration authorities detained and deported Elvira Arellano. I was pleasantly shocked, because I didn’t think they would do it! How about more of it?

Not only was Elvira a defiant and repeat lawbreaker, but she is an egotistical grandstander who shamefully exploits her 7-year old son Saul, using the family unification argument.

According to an article today in El Universal, the “Comisión Permanente” of the Mexican Congress has spoken out on the issue. (The Comisión Permanente is a sort of mini-Congress with 37 members that makes rulings when the full Congress is on recess). The Comisión Permanente has “energetically condemned the deportation of the Mexican Elvira Arellano from the United States, and the forced separation from her son Saul, who remains in that country.”

Saul, who was born an anchor baby and thus can’t be deported, is now 7 years old. My question is, if these activists are really so concerned about Saul, why don’t they finance a one-way trip for him to go to Mexico? That way Saul can be with his mother all the time. I mean, if that’s really what they want!

I guess their real goal is not to unite the mother and son, but to score another victory for illegal immigration.

The Comisión Permanente also called on the Mexican foreign ministry to help Saul and for the Institute of Mexicans Abroad to pay for a scholarship so he can study in Chicago. (How about a scholarship for him to study in Mexico? It’s cheaper, and there are good private schools here).

And since the Mexican government is claiming jurisdiction over Saul, wouldn’t that, according to the 14th Amendment’s “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, make him a citizen of Mexico, and not of the United States?

And by the way, why is it this kid’s dad is hardly mentioned? It’s because Elvira has never revealed who Saul’s father is!

Does the behavior of Elvira Arellano represent the kind of family values we need more of in the U.S.A.?

Which of the two, do you think, represents more of a threat to women’s rights in this country? (a) Deporting a convicted felon like Church Lady Elvira Arrellano who repeatedly thumbed her nose at our laws, or (b) an immigration policy that admits large numbers of men from countries where women are told they should be seen but not heard?

If you chose (b), you’re not part of the National Organization for Women’s (NOW) brain trust. In a Aug. 22 press release dripping with arrogance and the lie that illegals ordered to leave the country are “forced” to leave behind their children, the 500,000-member NOW demonstrated that it, too, really can’t be bothered with the rule of law:

NOW Denounces Deportation of Immigrant Rights Advocate Elvira Arellano

August 22, 2007
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is urging its members to speak out against the recent deportation of immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, president of La Familia Latina Unida (United Latino Family). La Familia lobbies on behalf of families that could be split up because of deportation.

Arellano, an undocumented worker who took refuge in a Chicago church last August to prevent being separated from her U.S.-born son, was deported to Mexico after she left the church in order to lobby House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Arellano’s case represents one of many in which mothers are being separated from their children and deported without any consideration being for the rights and needs of their minor children who are U.S. citizens.

“It is an outrage that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), in a deplorable operation called ‘Return to Sender’ is violating the rights of U.S. born children and placing their well-being in jeopardy. In a cold-hearted and punitive manner, ICE ignores pleas from mothers and fathers who have lived, worked, paid taxes and formed families in this country not to be separated from their dependent children,” says Olga Vives, Executive Vice President of NOW. [No e-mail address is available for Ms. Vives, but you can leave a general comments here.]

NOW’s response to the Arellano case is part of the organization’s larger call for an immediate moratorium on the immigration raids and deportation that have been devastating families and communities across the United States, and our call for the U.S. government to pass real immigration reform. Fair reform must address many issues, including a way to afford families like the Arellanos, witah U.S.-born children, a path to legalization, residency and citizenship.

NOW recognizes the contributions of immigrant women and encourages equitable and fair immigration policies that provide legal and safe immigration options, a path to citizenship, reproductive freedom and economic justice, and urges Congress to enact real, just and humane immigration reform legislation.

NOW Executive Vice President Olga Vives is available for comment on the Arellano case and other issues related to immigrant women’s rights in the U.S.

Contact: Mai Shiozaki, 202-628-8669, ext. 116; cell 202-641-1906

The inside history of intra-conservative immigration battles: In the cover story of the July 30 American Conservative, John O’Sullivan offers an extremely lucid recounting of conservative battles over immigration going back to his decision (with Bill Buckley’s concurrence) to print Peter Brimelow’s massive 1992 article on immigration:

Getting Immigration Right
By John O’Sullivan
It took 15 years, but conservative intellectuals finally deserted the Beltway establishment’s open-borders consensus.

WSJistas have long gibed about O’Sullivan and Brimelow being English immigrants, so John concludes his article:

Until the battle recommences, however, if any indignant xenophobe is thinking of writing an exposé of this conspiracy of English immigrants to impose an “un-American” system of immigration law on the American people, Steve Sailer has already come up with the perfect title: “The Protocols of the Elders of Albion.”

I don’t remember writing that, but John, my old editor at UPI, says that was my summary of the 2000 thriller “The Skulls,” a flop of a film about a Skull & Bones-style exclusive club at a college much like Yale. I must say I’ve become far less dismisive of conspiracy theories about the Skull & Bones society since the 2004 election, which matched two Bonesmen in Bush and Kerry. Skull & Bones only taps 15 promising young bucks per year, yet, five of the last ten major party Presidential candidates were Bonesmen. What are the odds of that?

Also, it appears likely that the rumor is true that during WWI, the President’s grandfather, past Bonesman and future Senator Prescott Bush, dug up the skull of Geronimo and loyally gave it to the Skull & Bones society, and that it remains in the windowless, fortress-like Skull & Bones headquarters on the Yale campus, despite efforts by Apache tribesmen to get their famous leader’s noggin back. I think that might explain a lot about the last seven years, although I’m not precisely sure what.

The headline is “Greek riots over Nigerian’s death,” but they aren’t Greek riots, they’re African riots in Greece, as a result of mass immigration.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Greek riots over Nigerian’s death

Greek police have clashed with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man in the northern city of Thessaloniki at the weekend.

Police fired tear gas at a stone-throwing crowd who had gathered outside the police station on Monday holding up photographs of the dead man.

The martyr in question seems to have died from jumping off a roof as he was fleeing police, who may or may not have been looking for him.

The regional Prefect, Panayiotis Psomiadis, is quoted as

“expressing solidarity with the city’s Nigerian community. “The tragic death of the young man from Nigeria reminds us all of the difficult days we Greeks experienced a few decades ago when we emigrated to make a living,” Psomiadis said. “It is the duty of the Greek state, whose development was influenced by emigration, to show sensitivity and attribute blame where necessary.”[Protests At Nigerian's "Murder"Kathimerini, English Edition, August 21, 2007]

Apparently Prefect Psomiadis feels that having sent emigrants overseas, the Greeks should be totally welcoming of immigrants at home. That makes very little sense–I don’t see why the proud people of Greece should suffer for the sins of Michael Dukakis and Arianna Huffington. And I still don’t see why the BBC is calling a Nigerian riot a Greek riot.

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