Church sanctuary refugee deported to Mexico: Elvira Arellano
Recently deported Elvira Arellano, whose yearlong sanctuary in a Chicago Methodist church symbolized for some activists unjust U.S. immigrant laws, said that she envisions little possibility of returning to the United States. “The only thing I can do is stay in Mexico,” she said to the Chicago Tribune in a telephone interview from Tijuana.
Arellano was arrested August 19 outside Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles, then processed through U.S. Customs and Immigration offices and taken 100 miles south to the border.