Navarrette: Elvira Arellano put son in danger

“When I heard that federal immigration agents had arrested and deported Elvira Arellano, a 32-year-old Mexican citizen who brazenly broke our laws and all but dared U.S. authorities to do anything about it, I wondered what the reaction would be from the National Council of La Raza.

Days before, I had received an angry phone call from NCLR President Janet Murguia, accusing me of taking a “cheap shot” by implying in a column that the organization supported open borders because it opposed a plan by the Bush administration to target employers of illegal immigrants.

Murguia insisted that the NCLR supports enforcement and she pointed to its lobbying for the Senate compromise which, she reminded me, had an enforcement component.”

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