Heeding the call of Elvira Arellano

“Elvira Arellano stepped completely out of the shadows last week, seeking to galvanize the immigrant rights movement into emergency action. At stake is the fate of the nation’s 12 million undocumented immigrant workers and their families.

“We cannot just sit by and watch our families be torn to pieces for the next three years. I cannot,” said Arellano, Aug. 18, when she appeared here at La Placita Church. She called for the start of a campaign for emergency legalization legislation.

Arellano left her sanctuary church in Chicago to come to California to help build grassroots efforts here urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Immigration Subcommittee Chair Zoe Lofgren, both Cali-fornians, to initiate emergency legislation. “

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