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Elvira Arellano (born at San Miguel Curahuango, Michoacán, 1975) is a Mexican citizen who has become a symbol of illegal immigrants in the U.S. Elvira Arellano was deported on August 20, 2007 for living in the U.S. illegally. After evading a deportation order she took refuge at the United Methodist Church of Adaberto on Division Street, in Chicago, where she remained for 12 months. She was arrested in Los Angeles by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, when she went to lecture at the church Our Lady Queen of Angels. Her son Saul remained in the U.S. but later on he joined his mother in Mexico. On August 29, 2007, Elvira Arellano asked Mexican President Felipe Calderon to request the U.S. government for a special visa to visit her son, and called for assistance to the 600,000 Mexican mothers who are in similar circumstances, as well as the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. On February 9, 2008, Elvira Arellano was denied entry into Canada where she was scheduled to arrive in Vancouver to speak at a public forum on Sanctuary and Migrant Justice on Sunday Feb 10th and to join the U.S.-based Marcha Migrante on February 12 at the border. Elvira Arellano has been unable to return to U.S. and she lives in the Mexican state of Michoacan, where she has created the organization La Familia Latina Unida - Sin Fronteras (Latina Family United - Without Borders), which supports families divided by mass deportations in the U.S. and Central American immigrants detained or affected by the violence in Mexico. On March 18, 2014, she presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego, California, where she requested asylum in the United States.〔(Elvira Arellano, who fought deportation from Chicago church, asks for US asylum )〕 ==History== Arellano entered the United States illegally in 1997 and was apprehended and deported back to Mexico by the United States government. She returned within days and lived illegally for three years in Oregon.〔NON-WORKING LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/15/migrant.mom.ap/index.html〕 In 1999, she gave birth to a son, Saul Arellano, whose father remains unnamed by Elvira. Saul is a United States citizen. In 2000, Arellano moved to Chicago and worked as a cleaning woman at O'Hare International Airport.〔 In 2002, following a post-September 11 security sweep, she was arrested and convicted of Social Security fraud.〔 Arellano was ordered to appear before immigration authorities on August 15, 2006.〔 On that date she took refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist church in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago, which maintained it was a sanctuary for illegal aliens. Before that, she sought safe haven for a year in Amor De Dios United Methodist Church with Pastor José S. Landaverde, who begun the new immigrant sanctuary movement in Illinois.〔() El Santuario De Los Inmigrantes〕 On November 14, 2006, in Mexico City, Saul Arellano appeared before the Congress of Mexico.〔"Boy wages fight for mother," Oscar Avila. Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. Washington: Nov 15, 2006. pg. 1〕 The Mexican lawmakers passed a resolution to urge the United States government to suspend the deportation of Arellano and other parents of children who are United States citizens. She was arrested on August 19, 2007 in Los Angeles. Within hours of her arrest Arellano was repatriated to Mexico by U.S. federal agents in compliance with an existing deportation order. She was accompanied to the Mexican border by an official of the Mexican consulate in San Diego, California, as well as by agents of the U.S. government.〔(G:\Civil\06 Cases\06 C 4582\Motion to Dismiss Order.wpd )〕〔(cbs2chicago.com - Judge Strikes Blow To Hopes Of Immigrant In Church )〕〔(ArellanoElvira - Elvira Arellano )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elvira Arellano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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