Posted on 03/19/2014 9:42:55 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
(CBS) – A Mexican immigrant who made international headlines seven years ago for living in a Chicago church while fighting to stay in the U.S. with her son before she was deported has returned from Mexico, seeking asylum for humanitarian reasons. Elvira Arellano took refuge at Adalberto United Methodist Church in Humboldt Park for a year, until she was deported in August 2007, when she left the church in an effort to lobby Congress for immigration reform.
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