Group wants immigrant deported

CHICAGO, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A border security advocacy group has called on a single mother holed up in a Chicago church to come out and be deported to Mexico.

The woman, Elvira Arellano, has been in a United Methodist Church since Aug. 15, refusing to surrender to federal authorities for deportation, the Chicago Tribune reports.

While in the church, her lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of her 7-year-old son, Saul, a U.S. citizen. The suit charges his rights would be violated if Arellano, who entered the United States illegally, is deported.

The group, known as the Minutemen Project, calls this claim nonsense.

The group's Ted Hayes, an African-American, claims she has defamed the civil rights movement by suggesting her refusal was similar to that of Rosa Parks, the black seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.

Hayes says he hopes to meet with Arellano this weekend.

U.S. President Bush has called the Minutemen vigilantes.