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[20 Aug 2007 | Comments | ]

Elvira Arellano was arrested outside a downtown Los Angeles church on Sunday afternoon and she has been deported to Mexico. She had been speaking out against separation of families and was on her way to speak at another church when unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars surrounded her SUV and took her into custody. It went down like this:
As Arellano, her 8-year-old son Saul and others headed in a sport-utility vehicle along Main Street toward another leg of their trip in Northern California, several unmarked cars swarmed the vehicle, …