[news] The Deportation of Elvira Arellano

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The deportation of immigrant rights activist **Elvira Arellano** by federal authorities on August 20 was a blow aimed at the immigrant rights movement. Arellano, a 32-year old single mother who had spent a year living in a Chicago church in defiance of a deportation order, had become a spokesperson for the New Sanctuary Movement, which focuses on how immigration law and immigration authorities have separated families, and a symbol of resistance for the broader immigrant rights movement.

  


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