Illegal Immigrant story

I have so many problems with this story on so many levels!!


Read about it here Fox news and here Breitbart.


To give you a summary: Elvire Arellano came to the United States illegally in 1997. Was deported and came back, illegally, in 2000. She began working at the Chicago's O'Hara airport and was arrested in 2002 for using a false social security number. She was suppose to turn her self in to the authorities last Aug in 2006 and instead began living at a church instead. At some point in time she gave birth to a child who is now 8 years old and is a US citizen. She left the church in order to speak out (and now she is called an activist) against the raids that break up families by sending the parents back to their original country while the children stay here. So now Arellano has been arrested and deported back to Mexico and her child has stayed.


I have major problems with the system and major problems as a parent when it comes this situations.


First off, she was deported and came back. Obviously, deportation does not deter. Nor do those that get deported care that they have broken the laws of the United States. Why - Alrellano says it herself "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight." Fight? Fight for what? To stay in a country you came to illegally? Let me guess, fight to stay with your son? You came to the US and had been deported - you came back and had a child knowing you could get deported but what? figured we are so nice we would never make you go back once you had a child?


Moving on - so it has been established she doesn't care about US law because her actions have spoken for her. And nor does it matter whether she gets deported or arrested she will continue to ignore the law and then have a child knowing she can be deported. Does anybody else's head hurt from the logic (or lack there of)?

I am no mathematical genius but if her son is 8 years old like the stories say - for argument sake lets say he just turned 8 this month - that means he was born in Aug. of 1999. She was deported "shortly" after being caught in 1997. She moved to Illinois in 2000 but she was in the country prior to that because her son is a US citizen. If he was born Aug. of 99' and I am giving some time here, it is quite possible she wasn't out of the country more than a year, year and a half tops.

Here is the other side of the beef - She was deported the first time. The second time she got busted she was arrested for using a false social security number and she was in the country illegal but was allowed to turn herself in at a later date rather than deported right away. Anyone else see the flaw in that? She choose NOT to turn herself in and instead "fight" against the law.

You are here ILLEGALLY, you are here not in accordance with our law - and you haven't been in accordance with our law for about 8 or 9 years now!!! Longevity does not keep you here - proper paperwork does!! It really does suck that families get torn apart but the thing is - they choose to be here illegally. This is what goes along with it. They want to give their kids a better life, fine, just accept that when they get caught they won't be able to watch. Any illegal immigrant would have a serious problem if someone did something illegal against them and I am sure would want them punished but yet for some reason they should be untouched by simple laws like whether you are here legally or not. Tell that to the people that had their families lives ripped apart by someone who was here illegally. They will tell you that law is not as small as others would like everyone to believe.