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“Elvira is not going to go to the back of the bus so somebody else can sit there while they treat her differently,” said Ema Lozano of Center Without Borders. “Elvira is here, she works hard, her kid is a U.S. citizen, they allowed her to come into the country.”
“A woman who has become a prominent activist for illegal immigrants sought sanctuary in a church Tuesday rather than turn herself in for deportation to Mexico as directed by federal authorities.
“I’m not going to leave. This is a place where God has put me, this is God’s will and I’m going to stay here,” Elvira Arellano said in a phone interview from the Adalberto Memorial United Methodist Church.”
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