Immigration activists take up cause of woman seeking sanctuary

“Immigration activists from California to South Carolina are taking up the cause of a woman who has holed up in a friendly church for two days with her young son rather than turn herself in to be deported to Mexico.

Immigration officials say there is nothing preventing them from removing Elvira Arellano from Adalberto United Methodist Church and sending her back to Mexico. But they’re not addressing how and when they plan to end the standoff, and Arellano already has put the storefront church at the center of the debate over illegal immigration.”

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