Deported immigration activist Elvira Arellano demonstrates at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City
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Apr
23
MEXICO CITY -- As President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City Thursday, a small group of immigration activists demonstrated at the U.S. Embassy on leafy Paseo de la Reforma, close to downtown. They were there to demand comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. and a stop to immigration raids and deportations.
Children who are U.S. citizens but now live in Mexico because of their parents' deportations were there. While President Obama said at his speech in the Democratic National Convention last year that no one "benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child," activists had hoped he would stop deportations with an executive order. That has not happened.
One of the protesters present was Elvira Arellano, who became known nationwide when she fought a deportation order in 2006 by seeking sanctuary inside a Chicago church. Arellano was finally deported in 2007 and now runs a migrant shelter in Tijuana, working for immigration reform from the other side of the border. She came to the embassy with her 10-year-old son, Saúl, a U.S. citizen.
A Feet in 2 Worlds slideshow by Diego Graglia.
Children who are U.S. citizens but now live in Mexico because of their parents' deportations were there. While President Obama said at his speech in the Democratic National Convention last year that no one "benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child," activists had hoped he would stop deportations with an executive order. That has not happened.
One of the protesters present was Elvira Arellano, who became known nationwide when she fought a deportation order in 2006 by seeking sanctuary inside a Chicago church. Arellano was finally deported in 2007 and now runs a migrant shelter in Tijuana, working for immigration reform from the other side of the border. She came to the embassy with her 10-year-old son, Saúl, a U.S. citizen.
A Feet in 2 Worlds slideshow by Diego Graglia.
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21
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Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.