August 28, 2007
Memo From Mexico,
By
Allan Wall
Elvira Arellano’s Unreported Agenda—Latinizing The U.S.
Today (August 28th, 2007), Elvira
Arellano—the
recently-deported Mexican illegal alien mother who
took “sanctuary” in a Chicago church for a year
allegedly to avoid being separated from her 8-year-old
son—met for 40 minutes with
Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, in Los
Pinos, the Mexican White House.
Her reason for meeting with Calderon: to ask him to help
her obtain a U.S. visa so she can return to the U.S. [Se
compromete Calderón a revisar caso Elvira Arellano,
By Sergio Javier Jiménez, El Universal, August
28, 2007]
And that makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? If you want a
U.S. visa, naturally, you want to speak to the President
of Mexico!
Calderon said he’d study her case, and the foreign
ministry would do everything possible to help her. But
he also said—what a shocker!—that her receiving a U.S.
visa doesn’t depend on the Mexican government, but on
U.S. authorities.
Imagine that, it's a revolutionary concept! [Pide
Elvira Arellano Ayuda a Presidencia, Jornada On Line,
August 28, 2007]
In Mexico, the deportation of Elvira was, needless to
say, condemned in the media, by the foreign ministry and
the
Permanent Commission of the Mexican Congress.
But, despite the hoopla, I don’t get the impression that
your average Mexican in Mexico really cares much about
it.
For example, some Mexican websites I visit include a
section providing links to the most-read articles of the
day. In those sections, I see links about politics, the
hurricane, sports and a celebrity divorce…but not about
Elvira.
Was this deportation a humanitarian tragedy? Was Elvira
really just a mother fighting to keep her family
together? Is she the new
Rosa Parks? Should immigration law be changed to
protect women like her from being deported?
That’s what the open border activists are telling us, as
they promise
more marches and protests on both sides of the
border.
Hmm. By coincidence, I have a son who is the same age as
Elvira’s son. I don’t want to be separated from him
either, or from the
rest of my family. But when I was
deployed to Iraq, I was anyway.
Elvira’s saga in a nutshell: She was born in 1975 in the
Mexican state of Michoacan, illegally entered the U.S.A.
in 1997, and was deported. Within the space of a few
days, she illegally entered again and resided 3 years in
Oregon.
While living there, Elvira had a son, Saul,
out of wedlock, in 1999. This child, whose father is
unknown,
is technically a U.S. citizen because of the
“anchor baby” misinterpretation of the 14th
Amendment. He became the
main prop for Elvira’s campaign.
In 2000 Elvira moved to Chicago where she acquired a job
as a janitor. (So much for security—she was actually
working at O’Hare International Airport and
her job was to clean airplanes!)
It took 2 years for the Feds to find out what was going
on. In 2002, Elvira was arrested for using a
fake Social Security number and was sentenced to 3
years probation (but still not deported).
In 2005, she was still not deported, but granted a stay,
while waiting for bills pending in Congress to somehow
legalize her.
On August 15th, 2006, Elvira was scheduled to
appear before immigration authorities in Chicago.
Fearing deportation, Elvira requested sanctuary, taking
refuge in the
Adalberto United Methodist Church. She was
already an active member and co-lay leader in the
congregation.
This proves the point I’ve
argued before: just because Hispanics
become Protestants doesn’t mean they are becoming
Americans. Elvira, after all, has
never bothered to learn English although she has
been in the U.S. for ten years.
Elvira
holed up in the church for a year, the cause
célèbre of the open borders crowd, making a
great spectacle of her "plight."
Even before asking for sanctuary, Elvira was already an
activist. Despite being a non-citizen illegal alien, she
had founded an activist organization, "La Familia
Latina Unida" [United Latino Family], which
fights to keep immigrant families from being separated.
Elvira’s activism was also sponsored by an organization
called
"Pueblo Sin Fronteras"
[A People without Borders], led by Emma Lozano, who
also operated the "Centro Sin Fronteras."[Center
Without Borders]
And who is Emma Lozano? She’s the preacher's wife. Yes,
that’s right, her husband is
Walter Coleman, long-time leftist activist pastor of
the Adalberto United Methodist Church, where Elvira
requested sanctuary.
Back on the second day of Elvira’s stay in the church,
Coleman gushed of Elvira that
"she represents the voice of the undocumented, and we
think it's our obligation, our responsibility, to make a
stage for that voice to be heard."[Feds
warn she cannot claim sanctuary By Don Babwin,
Associated Press. August 16, 2006]
And that’s exactly what the church did, for a whole
year, until Elvira
thought it was safe to leave and fly to Los Angeles
and then to Washington, D.C. continuing her campaign for
the families.
Naturally, given our government’s usual
lackadaisical attitude to
immigration control, she thought she could get away
with it.
But on August 19th, she was
caught and
deported to Mexico.
Mexican Consul in LA
Ruben Beltran complained that the quick deportation
didn’t allow consular assistance. But in fact, Elvira
and immigration officials were accompanied to the border
by an
official from the Mexican consul in San Diego. So
Beltran’s wrong about that. The real truth:
Mexican officials don’t want the U.S. to deport
anybody.
The SRE—the Mexican foreign ministry—thundered its
disapproval:
"….a fellow Mexican has been obliged to be separated
from her minor child, of American nationality. This act
is contrary to the principles of family unification that
form a fundamental part of the current migratory
legislation of the U.S. "
Elvira permanecerá en México y su hijo en EU
Jaime Hernández El Universal Martes August 21, 2007
So you see,
the Mexican government understands our
"family reunification" policy and the
"anchor baby"
issue—and is using them against us.
Family unification is a wonderful thing. But Mexican
families could
stay unified by staying here in Mexico!
Or, in the Elvira case, by not having a child out of
wedlock and then breaking up with the kid’s father. Why,
in all the Elvira hoopla, is the deadbeat dad getting
off the hook?
As for the anchor baby policy, it’s
high time that was changed anyway. So thank you,
Elvira, for reminding us how important that is!
Besides, there is a simple solution to the entire
Elvira/Saul Melodrama. Now that Elvira is in Mexico,
Saul can just live with her there!
Legally, Saul is a Mexican national. According to
Article 30 of the Mexican constitution, "Those
who are born abroad of Mexican parents, of a Mexican
father or a Mexican mother" are "Mexicans by
birth".
By Mexican law, Saul is Mexican. (So are all
American-born children of Mexican immigrants.)
Therefore, there should be no impediment to the boy
residing in Mexico with his
beloved mother.
So there you go. Case closed.
In fact, Saul has already been to Mexico. He went to
Mexico and appeared before the
Mexican congress, who gave him a
rousing welcome.
And soon after mommy dearest was deported to Mexico,
Saul was taken down to Tijuana to see her. But then
he was sent back to Chicago!
So who is separating this mother and son? It’s not the
U.S. immigration authorities. It’s not immigration
patriots. It’s Elvira and her activist comrades who sent
Saul back to the U.S.
Why? So he can continue to be cynically utilized in a
propaganda campaign to encourage the legalization of all
illegal aliens.
So who does Saul live with now? He resides in
Chicago…with the Methodist pastor Walter Coleman and his
activist wife Emma Lozano. They have
custody of the kid.
Won’t he miss his mommy? Don’t worry about that. The
plan is for Saul to travel frequently to Mexico to visit
his mother!
Now wait a minute. If these activists have the money to
fly Saul back and forth from Chicago to Mexico, why
can’t they just fly him to Mexico and leave him there?
If they are really concerned about
"family unification", they would send Saul back
to Mexico, and help the mother and son to get
established here. After all, the cost of living is
lower.
But, you see, it’s not really about helping families, is
it? The family values argument is just a cynical scam.
It’s a guilt trip to lay on middle-class Americans. It’s
a strategy to justify the legalization of illegal
aliens.
The real issue here is anti-Americanism and the
transformation of our country.
Read this strikingly frank statement, co-authored by
Elvira and preacher’s wife Emma Lozano:
"The popular coalition has made great gains. We have
shown that we are not only for protecting the rights of
the undocumented but we are struggling for Latinos to
become a voice for justice for all of Latin America. We
have supported self-determination and opposed
assimilation into this nation’s individualistic,
imperialistic values. We have taught that our people did
not come here because of the American Dream but because
of what the American nightmare did to our countries of
origin. We have asserted that our demand to be here and
to be
fully enfranchised here is a right not a privilege
[sic] and a destiny of our people to transform this
nation." [UNIFY
AND FOCUS OUR MOVEMENT NOW! Emma Lozano,
presidente Pueblo sin Fronteras Elvira Arellano,
presidente La Familia Latina Unida]
So that’s the real goal. Not helping families but
Latinizing the United States. This is the
Treason Lobby in action.
Ironically, Elvira spoke the truth upon her arrival to
Mexico, when she said that the United States broke the
law first by
allowing all these illegal aliens into the country.
Well, she’s right about that.
But the solution is not amnesty. The solution is to stop
being intimidated by shameless con artists like
Elvira—and start enforcing the law.
Breaking News!
Today (August 28th, 2007) an interview with Elvira was released,
entitled
EU No Encontró a Bin Laden, Pero Encontró a Elvira
Arellano (“The U.S. didn’t find Bin Laden,
but it found Elvira Arellano”). Elvira was
interviewed by Carlos Loret de Mola Jr., son of the
Carlos Loret de Mola who
was promoting reconquista way back in 1982.
Elvira moaned that
“After the 9/11 (the terrorist attacks of the 11th
of September) the government of the United States was
looking for terrorists… it didn’t find Bin Laden but
it found Elvira Arellano….The U.S. says I am a threat to
the government, but I work to give a better future to my
son…we aren’t terrorists nor criminals, we just seek a
better future for our families…”
But, Elvira also announced that she has now decided to have
Saul come to live with her in Mexico:
“I told him that he has to come back with me, but
[Saul] wants to keep fighting so I can return to the U.S….yes,
I’m going to bring him here, I have accepted it. I told
him he is an American citizen and he had the right to
enter and exit his country as many times as he wishes.”
Well, I hope Saul really does come to Mexico and live with
his mother. I hope they live happily ever after.
And I'd like to think that Elvira's deportation is a sign
that our leaders are actually going to enforce the
law—whether they realize Elvira’s agenda or not.
American
citizen Allan Wall (email
him) resides in Mexico, with a
legal permit issued him by the Mexican government. Allan
recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq with the
Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are
archived
here; his FRONTPAGEMAG.COM
articles are archived
here his "Dispatches from
Iraq" are archived
here his website is
here.
