Fastest Deportation Ever

Who said illegal aliens couldn't be deported quickly? We noted Saturday how leftwing pawn Elvira Arellano had finally left the Chicago church where she was holed up the past year and what do you know, she's already back in Mexico.

Granted, she'll probably be back before long, but this at least shows the law can be enforced.

Immigration Activist Deported to Mexico

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An illegal immigrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born son has been deported to Mexico, the church's pastor said.

Elvira Arellano became an activist and a national symbol for illegal immigrant parents as she defied her deportation order and spoke out from her religious sanctuary. She held a news conference last week to announce that she would finally leave the church to try to lobby U.S. lawmakers for change.

She had just spoken at rally Los Angeles rally when she was arrested Sunday outside Our Lady Queen of Angels church and deported, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago, where Arellano had been living.

"She has been deported. She is free and in Tijuana," said Coleman, who said he spoke to her on the phone. "She is in good spirits. She is ready to continue the struggle against the separation of families from the other side of the border."

Her 8-year-old son, Saul, is now living with Coleman's family. During a news conference in Los Angeles after Arellano's arrest, the boy hid behind the pastor's wife and wiped away tears.

Arellano had said on Saturday that she was not afraid of being taken into custody by immigration agents.

"From the time I took sanctuary, the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want," she said in Spanish. "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight."

Fine. Stay there and fight. Just don't enter this country illegally again, OK?

Arellano, 32, arrived in Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly afterward, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O'Hare International Airport.

She was arrested in 2002 at O'Hare and convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August but instead sought refuge at the church on Aug. 15, 2006.

Granted, due to the anchor baby law, her son is a U.S. citizen. Though if she had any concern for the child rather than being an agitator, she's have brought her son with her.

Seems to me she's more concerned with publicity.

Question: How long until she pops up in the country again? My guess is she'll show up sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the 2008 Democrat Convention.

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