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Illegal Immigrant Mom Deported

Sought refuge in Chicago church

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• Aug. 18: Elvira Arellano, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who has taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid deportation for the last year, speaks to media at Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles church in Los Angeles.
• Feb. 9: Elvira Arellano, a Mexican national who defied a U.S. deportation order by taking refuge in a Chicago church, speaks at a news conference.
• Nov. 14, 2006: Saul Arellano, the 7-year-old son of illegal Mexican immigrant Elvira Arellano, talks with reporters at the Mexican Congress in Mexico City.
• Oct. 3, 2006: Saul Arellano, the 7-year-old son of Chicago immigration activist Elvira Arellano, waits outside the White House with a letter to President Bush.
• Aug. 15, 2006: Elvira Arellano sits with her 7-year-old son, Saul, on a pew inside the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago.