She’s violated our immigration laws. She was convicted of Social Security fraud. She held up in a church to avoid our authorities. She was eventually deported when she took her show on the road. Now, Elvira Arellano wants the Mexican President to give her a diplomatic visa, so she can come back. And he just might.
The recently deported illegal migrant and activist who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year, has asked the Mexico’s president to appoint her “peace and justice” ambassador so she can return to the United States.
Elvira Arellano, 32, who sought refuge to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born, 8-year-old son, was arrested and sent back to Mexico on Aug. 19 after traveling to Los Angeles to attend a rally for the overhaul of U.S. immigration laws. Her son stayed in the United States.
“What I’m asking for is a diplomatic visa so that I can be an ambassador for peace and justice because I’m not a terrorist and the United States can’t continue treating undocumented migrants as terrorists,” Arellano told reporters after meeting with President Felipe Calderon at the presidential residence, Los Pinos.
In a news release, the president’s office said Arellano asked the Mexican government to help her get a visa so she can enter the United States but it did not mention Arellano’s request for a diplomatic appointment.
Calderon asked Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa to “look into the situation that Mrs. Arellano and her son face and to approach U.S. authorities so that we can respond to (her) request,” it said.
Everyday, this immigration issue gets more and more insane. Let’s look at where we are. We’re putting Border patrol agents in jail for over a decade, because they stopped drug runners from entering the US. We’re giving immunity to those drug runners to testify against them.
We’re protecting illegal aliens from raids. Cities and even states are doing everything in their power to make sure the federal authorities can’t do their job as the law dictates. They harbor people who violated our sovereignty, broke out immigration laws, and use our social services.
We’re fighting to stop our own Congress from granting these same illegal aliens amnesty. We’ve got elected officials suggesting we provide insurance for illegal aliens and give them college tuition breaks our own children don’t get.
Now we’ve potentially got a foreign government sending someone we just deported, back as a “diplomat”. And, of course, she wouldn’t serve as a “peace and justice” ambassador. It’d just be an excuse to get back into this country so she can go marching through the streets with the open-borders crowd. And we can do nothing about it.
Sovereignty? What sovereignty?


by Stephan Tawney on August 29, 2007