Elvira_Arellano - PRO-IMMIGRATION SUPPORTERS PROTEST ELVIRA ARELLANO ARREST AND DEPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES

PRO-IMMIGRATION SUPPORTERS PROTEST ELVIRA ARELLANO ARREST AND DEPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES

Emilia Cervantes and her daughter Emily (R) join a small group of immigration supporters in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, on August 20, 2007, protesting the deportation of immigrant activist Elvira Arellano back to Mexico. At the news conference immigration activists said they will continue Arellano's original plan to go to Washington, D.C., and take part in a prayer meeting and rally for immigration reform at the Capitol on September 12. They also called for a national boycott on that date. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)


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CHICAGO, June 27 (UPI) -- A Mexican woman known to Chicagoans as an immigration activist who sought sanctuary in a church says she is running for Mexico's congress, observers say.
CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A tiny Chicago church that sheltered an illegal immigrant for a year has offered sanctuary to another woman facing deportation to Mexico.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. immigration authorities arrested a Mexican woman in Los Angeles who championed immigration reform while illegally holed up in a Chicago church for a year.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Los Angeles' Our Lady Queen of Angels Church is giving refuge to illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano so she can maintain her activism for new immigration laws.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Wednesday marked a full year an illegal Mexican immigrant has spent defying U.S. immigration officials holed up in a Chicago church with her son.
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.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- An immigrant-rights advocate in Chicago says she will not allow federal authorities to deport her to Mexico without a fight.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A Chicago advocate for illegal immigrants has defied federal authorities trying to deport her back to Mexico by taking refuge in a church.
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