SubscribeWhat’s Wrong With This Picture? - Arellano
The photo is from a press release provided by Mexico’s Presidencia website:
Elvira Arellano speaks with Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón at the presidential residence of Los Pinos in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
Didn’t Ms. Arellano enter our country illegally? And didn’t she return after being deported, which is a felony?
And while here, didn’t she commit another felony by using someone else’s Social Security Card? Then, as if that wasn’t enough, didn’t she try to fuel a protest campaign for rights for illegal aliens?
Should the President of Mexico have had an audience with her?
Imagine the howls of outrage if Mr. Bush met with some US citizens who had notoriously flaunted the very strict immigration laws of Mexico.
Indeed, behold some pertinent highlights from those self-same laws, courtesy of the Center For Security Policy via Human Events:
- Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets "the equilibrium of the national demographics," when foreigners are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when "they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy." (Article 37)
- Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
- Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117))
- Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
- "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)
- Foreigners who "attempt against national sovereignty or security" will be deported. (Article 126)
Who knows? Maybe Mr. Calderon explained the concept of national sovereignty and the importance of the rule of law to this confused young woman.
Of course I jest. He did no such thing.
Here is the accompanying press release from the office of the Mexican President:
President Calderón Receives Elvira Arellano
Tuesday, August 28 Press Release
Official Residence
President Calderón received Elvira Arellano at the Official Los Pinos Residence today
During the conversation, the Mexican President listened carefully to Mrs. Arellano’s explanation of her current situation and her constant struggle to reunify migrant families.
The president offered Elvira Arellano all his sympathy regarding her compulsory separation from her son and offered her his support in this complex situation.
President Calderón ratified the priority his government places on the living conditions of Mexican migrants residing in the United States and repeated the need for an integral migratory reform in that country.
He also explained that his administration is working hard to create employment opportunities for Mexicans which, in the medium and long term, will enable a larger number of co-nationals to have opportunities for development in this country.
For her part, Mrs. Arellano asked the Mexican government to apply for a visa from the United States that will enable her to return to that country.
The Mexican president instructed Secretary of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Patricia Espinosa to order her department to undertake an analysis of the situation being faced by Mrs. Arellano and her son and to take the necessary steps with the US authorities to be able to respond to this request.
¡Muchas gracias, President Calderón!
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August 29th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Given Mexico’s economy is largely dependent on income sent from America to Mexico, why wouldn’t Calderón treat her like a hero; she’s trying to protect his cash flow.
August 29th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Elvira Arellano, as soon as she finds a way to claim Bush “off’ed” her child, she can cement her position as Mexico’s Cindy Sheehan. I expect to see pictures of her posing with South American dictators any day now. My apologies to anyone who may have posted something similar.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:34 am
FF - so we should have a Mexican embassy person escort little Arellano back to his mother and say - you have a choice - you both return to America and momma goes to prison for X numbers of years (no cash flow to the bambino and Mexico) or you both stay in your homeland and find a damn job there. Simple. Revoke his ‘citizenship’ based on the fact that his birth was committed as part of a felony crime to commit another felony crime which was then compounded by another felony crime. [illegally in US after deportation, to scam social systems for $, identity theft and SS card scam]. I wonder how little Arellano is going to really think about Mommie Dearest when he grows up to realize that the only reason he was born was so that she could scam her way to stay in America and scam money. Wow what a mom. And then she left him, first chance she got. Yes, we have proof Daddy dearest is illegal - or she’d be touting his name left, right and indifferent - as it would help little Arellano be even more of an American citizen.
Well now that the cat is out of the bag that the ACLU & Unions are behind foisting illegals on America - this will die down - let’s all keep reminding anyone who insists (like the moroon last night on O’Reilly who called it humanitarian)that the humane thing to do is pander to millions of criminals, of Carranza and how if he’d been deported 5 victims might not have been victimized.
This will go away - America has spoken and Carranza is going to be the poster child of the movement against illegals in America. With Arellano as his second in command.
These two are exactly what is WRONG with letting the illegals come, stay and not ever get punished - they keep increasing their criminal behaviors.
BTW, a Big Yeah to my locality for another HUGE illegal bust (note to all other areas - they took retired school buses with them) 127 illegals off to their homeland where they belong - I have to say, here when they move in - companies pay fines and the illegals are adios baby.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:45 am
If any of you are near National City you may hear an underground rumble. That’s my oldest friend Joe spinning in his grave over this affair. Joe was a good union man and a staunch Democrate. He died in April 2000, but he had been born a few years prior to WWI, survived the Depression, was drafted prior to Pearl Harbor and released November 1941–the recalled December 1941 and sent to Alaska, did a gig as a drill sergeant, then spend the rest of his working life doing construction in southern California.
The unions used to be “anti-immigrant.” Joe told me of his union buddies piling into their jalopies during the Depression and hunting Mexicans–just “job protection” in those lean, hungry days. As late as the 1970’s, the “closed shop” was a goal attained by labor unions in California. Labor unions sponsor illegal workers, now? Do the unions put the squeeze on the illegal for union dues, or is union representation gratis? If the illegal cannot vote (no political power), does not pay union dues and works for lower wages than the legal workers (no economic power and a scab laborer, besides), and is seeking to destroy the system that made labor unions powerful, then why are labor unions seeking their own demise?
August 29th, 2007 at 10:55 am
wardmama4, No disrespect meant, I am not pro Illegal anything and perhaps my comments could be misconstrued as such. I’m still new at this. I was just commenting on what I viewed as a parallel. However, it looks as though you are a bit of a prophet. Latest Drudge report headline… Deported Mexican migrant mom asks to return as ‘peace ambassador’!… I think I’m gonna just puke. Thank you for your patience with this rookie.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
As Steve so kindly highlighted for us…”President Calderón ratified the priority his government places on the living conditions of Mexican migrants residing in the United States” is disgusting.
Hey, El Presidente, how about improving the living conditions of Mexicans within your own country? Then you wouldn’t have to be worried about those that immigrated to the US. Or maybe we should round up all our disabled, welfare recipients and elderly and ship them all across the border for them to take care of. It’s unheard of! And if we even suggested it, we’d be stoned and buried alive. To think that another country can do it and consider it acceptable domestic policy is astounding.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:45 am
FF…I like your Elvira Arellano = Mexican Cindy Sheehan comment !! I think your correct. Then Elvira will become the poster child for illegal immigration and she will evolve into representing peace and freedom. (While posing with dictators and socialists.) Lo siento mucho !!
August 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Turns out Ms. Arellano has even more chutzpah than we had given her credit for.
As FF.EMT.TX pointed out above, there was more to her visit than we were first told.
From the Associated Press:
How many “ambassadors” from Mexico do we need?
August 29th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Here are some excerpts from Ms. Arellano’s message of “peace”:
She’ll make a great ambassador.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Emma Lazano will from now on be known as the “Snagarita”. What a crock of dung! Calderon has been overheard stating that if he could successfully situate 20% of Mexico’s population in the United States, the Mexican economy would benefit greatly from the dollars sent by the illegals to their families.
Now, lazano is a criminal. A felon. Her purpose is nothing more than to act as a shill for calderon, our democrats, and the filthy misguided supporters of creating a free pass for all the criminal illegals in this country. I dont care what she says. It’s like a heroin addict suddenly demanding that his drug of choice be legal, and his arrest record shouldnt count.
Snagarita is in the limelight, and like the Snag, she will bask in her own self importance until such a time that we finally do something about this drain on our economy. That of course, depends solely on who is elected in 08, and if they have a pair. I wont hold my breath, either.
So, we now have a latina Snag….great. Well, unlike our Snag, this one is intelligent, she also knows how to play people a lot better, she doesnt have the interference of the vapid stupidity known as the left like our Snag does, or did…..and her face doesnt look like a stretched out dried lizard skin that has languished inside a glacier for eons. Cant say the same for our tired, worn out used car of a person who by the way, is still running for congress. Perhaps Snagarita should run for a seat in one of those “sanctuary cities”, they wouldnt have the balls to tell her she couldnt.
This is just wrong, and Calderon is loving every minute of it. 15% of his entire economy depends on our stupidity. If Calderon had to trade 100 barrels of oil for every illegal we have…..every month….he may decide that it isnt worth it. Or, put a 100 dollar surcharge on every money transfer out of the country, and send it to that city’s health care provider as relief from the appalling drain on their resources from illegals scamming the system.
There are ways….we just dont have the resolve. Wait, WE do…our vaunted elected officials lack anything resembling resolve…especially if it benefits this country and it’s citizens. It’s LEGAL citizens. They flat suck.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
“We have supported self-determination and opposed assimilation into this nation’s individualistic, imperialistic values. We have taught that our people did not come here because of the American Dream but because of what the American nightmare did to our countries of origin.”
That’s very peaceful.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
This is why we need the fence.
Didn’t see you’d noticed that too, Musette, but it seems great minds think alike.
And I’ve outlined six steps before about dealing with illegal immigration–but one of them is to put a tax–at least 50% (and when I was working grocery the average payment was 1200 or so) on any money transfers going to Mexico. Those we can’t stop, we’ll discourage. Those we can’t discourage, we’ll hurt.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
There’s an easier way than building a big fence. One that would prevent all these illegals from coming back, or popping up on the media to lambast our great nation. I propose we establish a “no man’s (or woman’s or child’s) land spanning the border. Anyone entering the area immediately gets shot, and their body left to rot in the desert sun. Instead of vulnerable border guards the US could utilize low-cost unmanned Predator vehicles outfitted with automatic weapons. Our nation is under invasion. Measures must be taken.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
“Snagarita”
Bwhaahahaha.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Sorry FF if you thought I was after you - as usuall this bunch took the Sheehan reference and ran with it - snagarita - there is an image I’d love to burn out of my brain.
You are right - as far as our media is concerned - she will be the Mexican Sheehan - the absolute moral authority on just crossing the border to make a better life.
Forget that she committed a felony which if anyone of us did it - we’d be in the big house faster than snot through a toddler. Forget that she had a kid (while apparently barely working) to 1) stay illegally in the country, 2) scam welfare, food stamps, healthcare and whatever other entitlements (and who the Hell made ADD a disability - that idiot should be shot) and 3) hasn’t bothered to learn the language.
The line -’assimilation into this nation’s individualistic, imperialistic values’ - makes me realize that these people are NOT immigrants - these are thieves just coming here to steal whatever they can. Jail or deportation - at the very least.
I think that the Unions have a two-fold reason for being part of this - one their memberships are down, they need more people willing to buy into it (give ‘em amnesty, that will be millions almost immediately) and secondly it gives them, well, (no other way to say it) but a slave class that the Unions can then use to shoot wages and benefits up again. Sorry but I think Unions are a historical entity and their time is way past their 15 mins. This to me is proof of it.
And doom - I love the Predator idea - shoot to kill. I’ve always said that it would probably take less than a week to stop all border sneaks.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I like doom’s idea…autonomous automatic weapons systems designed to fire on any heat, movement, or form without warning. Print the advisories on the border in english, just another way of helping those who refuse to even try to learn something other than…”where’s my check?” or ” is this the foodstamp line?”.
Oh, the snagarita thing was impossible for me to leave alone. Sorry for any indelible images left on your memory banks WM4….but hell, I couldnt resist.
August 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
And props, SG for the credit at American Thinker. I notice they love to cite you there.
August 29th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
AT is a great site.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Hey, ever wonder what a whole nation being screwed looks like - just keep watching this. Don’t hold your breath on the autonomous border guard either, folks, we can’t even build a lousy fence. Everybody sees it & nobody can do anything about it. Don’t hold your breath for 2008 either, it doesn’t matter who gets elected, we are screwed.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
jersygrrrl unfortunately….is correct. It really doesnt matter. Nobody has the courage to tell the emperor he has no clothes. Or that his winky is painfully small…. we are going to be in for a rough rough time….which leads me back to that paradigm…..just get ready.
When people like the criminal illegal felon elvira “snagarita” arellano are given any type of recognition by anyone other than the people at central booking….we are seeing the tip of the giant phallus that is going to pound us into the dirt.
What gets me is….once we are ruined by this crap…where are they going to immigrate to after they break this country? Who will take them after they see how they took the greatest nation on earth, and sucked it dry of it’s lifegiving blood….uh, that’s us. Canada? Ha!
Maybe by then, Mexico will be the richest nation on earth, what with our jobs, our money, our government aid, and our willingness to take their citizens and give them constitutional rights they havent earned nor deserve over our own citizens who have, perhaps then Mexico will demand that America put up a fence to keep starving gringos out of their country…..
jersygrrrl…..she’s spot on. It’s too bad too….this used to be a great country. Now it’s a good one.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am
The minds of our politicians have been rendered ineffectual to devise solutions for many of the pressing problems of the nation. Nowdays everything boils down to who can jockey into the political position to then divy up, to “give,” or “authorize,” (without going to jail in the process) some of the hundreds of billions of tax dollars to their friends every year. Re-election is, and “helping” their friends become millionaires are the most important objectives, more important than anything else in the day to day thoughts of our elected officials. Believe it. Everything else such as illegal immigration is only a distraction keeping these “honorable elected officials” of ours from pondering upon their next political manuever they hope to thwart, and creeping around seeking to throw them out of power … to spend all that money every year.
That’s the best I can do to portray my cynical side of our political process as it stands today.
I’ve been working on a plan. I will go around the broken American political process to accomplish what will bring the United States and the West (and our Asian allies) to stand in the future as the greatest civilization(s) ever. I have got a way, a strategy to kick the balls of these pathetic nations in the world, kick ‘em in the balls so hard they’ll never recover in fact; to stop them from throwing their offal on the rest of US.
Weed through what I like to think of as the camouflage I’ve put up at my website to get an idea of what I have in store for the world. If you are friends of a book publisher, or want a challenging public relations project to work on, all the better.
“Thar’s gold! in them thar’ hills boys!”
Otherwise, good day.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:49 am
I feel sorry for the few mexicans that actually come here legally and get lumped into the crowd of these whacko criminals “we are citizens” aka illegal immigrants. When you immigrate to a country you try and blend into the culture. Does that mean suddenly you have to stop speaking your native language, stop the cultural customs (I’m talking about things like day of the dead or aztec decended festivals), and start baking apple pies, no. It good to have a mixing of cultures, it creates diversity which is good. Its not good to move your entire way of life to an area and then demand that every changes to suit you. If I moved to france, I would have to learn their culture, their language, and work myself into that way of life. If mexicans want to come here they need to become americans, not make american another mexican state where they can leech off of it and send everything of value to the slums in mexico. I have to think that all the immigrants from the 1800’s and early 1900’s would be angered by the fact that people like Arellano are claiming they have a right to be in the US illegally and that we need to change to suit them all under the idea of “peace and justice”. Whats next, the demand that we give alaska back to the russians, florida to spain, all other other lands we aquired in history back to france, people with sometimes very tenous lines back to native american tribes, and the originally colonies back to england in the name of “peace and justice?” I say if she comes over, we send her right back in a box with “return to sender” on it, though if it was a pine box, she would be a martyr to the cause of illegal criminals have the same rights as a US citizen.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:22 am
IT’S TIME FOR “TRENT” LOTT, the IMMIGRATION ENTHUSIAST and RETARDED QUISLING, to make his Weekly Radio Address to the people of Mississippi. This is somewhat OT but I’ve had on the shelf for a while and it does have a Mexican charactor and goood ole ‘Trent’ too. C’mon - let’s listen in!
“That was Bloodrock, with ‘D.O.A’. Going out by special request to stevierae54. You’re listening to me, Senator ‘Trent Lott, on KLSR Radio, all ‘Trent’, all the time. Let’s take a short commercial break and then we’ll be back for some of your calls”.
“You’ll wonder where the yellow went” sang the jaunty, irritating commercial voices “When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!”
Still reaching out to that big yellow tooth demographic, eh? thought “Trent”.
“Manolo! Grooming check, por favor” called “Trent” to his cringing manservant.
“Si, Senor ‘Trent’” grovelled Manolo as he bustled over with the golden grooming implements and the big gold mirror. Manolo helped “Trent” to remove his golden headphones and held the gold framed looking glass steady as the senior lawmaker checked his marvellous hair.
A few swipes of the golden comb, a couple of passes with the golden brushes, a quick spit shine and another coat of Kerry Extra Strength Hair Immobilizer (now with added Paralyzing Agent) and “Trent” was ready to face his radio audience.
“How’s my amazing hair looking, Manolo?”
“Muy bueno! Mucho amaze-o! A regular John Edwards, mi jefe”.
“Trent” smiled with satisfaction. Oops – red light!
“And we’re back again live. I’m ‘Trent’ Lott, keeping in touch with the base, the ordinary common people who need to be told what’s best for them –like Mexicans! Lots and lots of Mexicans – they’re great! Anyhoo, let’s see who’s on Line 1. Hello, caller. You’re live on KLSR”
“’Trent’?”
“Hello, caller”.
“That you, ‘Trent’?”
“You need to turn your radio down, caller”.
“’Trent’?”
“Turn down your radio. Turn – it –down”.
“’Trent’? That you?”
“Yes, it me! You’re live with me, ‘Trent’ Lott, caller”.
“Ah is? Well, shoot, ‘Trent’ –whyn’t you say so? Howdy! Sorry ‘bout thuh confusion. Ah ain’t bin so right in mah head bone evah since Ah done drunk that stuff from insidea the thermo-mommy-ter. Now that dang quicksilver jes keeps on a-leakin’ outta mah ear hole, ‘Trent’”.
“I’m sorry to hear that, caller. What’s on your mind today?”
“Well, ya see ‘Trent’ the thang is that Ah’m in love…”
“That’s wonderful! Congratulations!”
“Yep. An’ she’s the purttiest, sexiest little filly you ever done seed,’Trent’”
“I’m sure she is. You’re a lucky fella!”
“Un-huh. ‘Ceptin’ we wants ta git a-married, see? But that mean ole Sheriff, he done said it were aginst the law on account of we all got too much con…consang…consag…hep me out heah, ‘Trent’”.
“Consanguinity?”
“Yep! That’s it! You a right smart fella, ‘Trent’!”
“Uh huh. I see. And are you a close blood relative to this gal?”
“Why, sure we be close blood relatives! She’s mah own Mammy, ain’t she?”
“Good grief. Well, I’m sorry caller. The law’s quite plain on this point. You just can’t marry your own mother”.
“Ah cain’t? Well, dang it, ‘Trent’ – now that’s a kick in the teeth. What’s this country a-comin’ to?”
“A good question, caller. Nowadays, with all this ‘gay marriage legislation’ and all these ‘civil partnerships’, why, somewhere it’s probably legal for you to marry your own brother!”
“It are? Fer sure? Why –thanks ‘Trent’! Hot damn! Ah’d a nevah thunka that! Hey, Jimmy Jack! Guess what?”
“Um. That’s all the calls we have time for right now. Let’s get back to the music. Here’s The Shocking Blue with ‘Venus’. I’m ‘Trent’ Lott!”
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