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Meet the New Elvira Arellano

10:11 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|chicago|Immigration|Justice|mexico|Women

30 Jan 2008

012908refuge_cst_feed_20080129_00_20_07_252%23h%3D282%26w%3D400Following the footsteps of Elvira Arellano is Flor Crisostomo. Flor took sanctuary yesterday inside of Adalberto United Methodist Church, the same church where Elvira stayed with her son for over a year. Flor had been ordered to voluntarily leave (how can you be ordered to voluntarily do anything) the country by the 28th after being arrested in an immigration raid in April of 2006.

“I am taking a stand of civil disobedience to make America see what they are doing,” Crisostomo said in a statement that was translated into English. Speaking in broken English, she said immigrants are not terrorists but hard-working people contributing to the economy.
“The real problem is the color and the language,” she said.


The reactions that will come from Flor’s case will not be surprising, especially since she has no children in the United States. All three of Flor’s children are in Mexico, which will most certainly be used against her in the media. She likely will be painted as an irresponsible mother who abandoned her children while she’s living it up in the states because we all know how undocumented workers live it up here on the public’s dime.

U.S. Immigration officials vowed that Flor would be arrested and pretty much threatened the church, reminding then that harboring an undocumented immigrant was a crime.

Via / The Chicago Sun Times

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2 Responses to Meet the New Elvira Arellano

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iris

February 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm

unfortunately for flor, there have been immigrant terrorist any one remember the shoe bomber. or 9/11, they were on overstayed visas like many illegal immigrants from the south.

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Edith Villasenor

October 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Hi I’m really happy that Elvira Arellano stood up to the Immigration and stood up for us Mexicanos.

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