Posted on 08/20/2007 6:48:44 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
...Sunday afternoon's arrest of immigration activist Elvira Arellano isn't a result of the federal government's new campaign against employers who hire illegal workers. But the abrupt arrival of law-enforcement agents outside a Los Angeles church -- after Arellano had spent a year claiming sanctuary at a church in Chicago -- is one more provocation for accelerating a strikingly divisive national debate...
No capture of a mother being separated from her son is a pleasure to behold. But the facts of Elvira Arellano's story make her difficult to view as a victim. She came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico and worked on a cleaning crew at O'Hare International Airport until she was arrested during a post-Sept. 11, 2001, security sweep at this nation's airports.
It turned out she had entered the U.S. illegally once before -- and had been arrested and deported, only to return. She also had used a fake Social Security number.
Arellano sought to avoid another deportation -- and since 2003 has received three stays. Her supporters called for a moratorium on all deportations until Congress passed an immigration reform bill that would help her. That unfortunate request no doubt hurt her cause more than it helped: ...this country isn't in the business of suspending the enforcement of a statute while Congress mulls whether to change it. She has gotten numerous breaks, but she remains subject to U.S. law ...
That arrest does, though, qualify as just the sort of highly visible consequence that stronger enforcement of this country's immigration laws will create...
For now, though, that law is abundantly clear. And Elvira Arellano made choices that invited the feds to enforce it.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elvirapoll,0,1301426,post.poll
It seems to me that the national discussion of this topic has been unitive, not divisive.
Massive majorities which cut across all the normal societal division lines have been demonstrated to support enforcing the law, deporting lawbreakers, and sealing the border.
In what way is that "divisive"?
Wrong. This arrest was a pleasure to behold.
EXCEPT when she's a criminal beach who came here after being deported once, 9.1 mos pregnant for the express purpose of popping out a kid to "anchor" her here.
Deport the damn kid too while we're at it!
Mrs. Gridlock (AKA My Favorite Liberal) and I disaggree on almost everything. But we agree on this.
The media needs it to be divisive. That way, it will stew and brew and fester, and they can report on the ill will and chaos that results.
Think about it. If everybody was happy and fullfilled, the media support would drop off dramatically.
To a great extent, they make their money by praying on the fears and discontent that people have.
Does anybody, anywhere believe that this will not save us a heck of a lot more than $7 Billion in welfare benefits?
Besides, if it only costs 7 Billion Bucks to make us a nation of laws, it is money well spent.
If this started happening, then you would see far fewer churches breaking the law to help illegal aliens.
So she sponged off a church for a year and thought she was going to be greeted in illegal LA like a hero. The gov doesn’t like it when you skip out of a court date.
Sanctuary in a church? Didn’t that go out of style 400 years ago?
I’m so glad the government up a stop to this.
I'm sure you meant preying, since praying has nothing to do with the news business.
If she had been a fit mother she would have taken her son with her.
I know the director of the Illinois Minutemen, and she said that, since Sept. 11, 2001, illegal aliens have killed an average of 23 Americans per day. If more law-breakers are deported, that will save many American lives.
It is divisive because it is not a liberal stance. All liberal stances are moderate and fair. Anything in the middle or right is ‘controversial’ and ‘divisive”. Fixing social security is controversal, but leaving it be to go bankrupt is not. Monitoring terrorist by telephone is controversial, but letting people from muslim states into the country through the southern border is not. When the media are only surrounded by leftists, their faulty beliefs become the norm.
Geraldo is coming up now on Laura Ingraham. May she spank him soundly!
“this country isn’t in the business of suspending the enforcement of a statute while Congress mulls whether to change it.”
The country isn’t? Man, I’d have to say we’ve been doing a pretty good job of “faking” it then !!!
Sorry, I don’t do Geraldo. When he comes on Fox I change the channel as a matter of policy, because everything that comes out of his mouth is BS. I am waiting to read the newspaper story about Michelle Malkin, Ingraham and Coulter joining forces to beat the poop out of him and wipe that smirk off his ugly mug. Ditto for the radio. I turn it off.
Yeah, tell that to the Census Bureau.
Apparently not, but they have allowed heretic burning to lapse. You know how styles change.
LOL.
I have posted a thread with a link if you change your mind. :)
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