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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2007 
Mexican Woman Deported From U.S. Vows Hunger Strike In Push for Better Treatment of Migrants
 Associated Press
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| | Elvira Arellano, an immigrant who fought deportation and separation from her U.S. born son by living in a church in Chicago for about a year, sings Mexico's national hymn during the first parliament of Mexican migrant leaders living in the US, at the National Congress in Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. (AP/Alexandre Meneghini) |
Mexico City A Mexican migrant-rights advocate deported from the U.S. said she began a hunger strike Friday to push her government to demand its citizens receive better treatment north of the border.
Elvira Arellano, a former illegal immigrant who took sanctuary in a Chicago church during a yearlong fight to stay in the U.S., said she was holding the strike because I want our government to listen, to act, to defend our migrant families.
Is Mexico prepared to receive all of these deported people and their families? she asked U.S.-based migrant activists at a two-day conference at Mexico's Congress.
Or is it prepared to defend them against all these attacks? she said.
Along with opposing anti-immigrant measures in the U.S., conference participants are asking Mexico to reform its own laws by decriminalizing the migration of Central Americans and others to Mexico. They also insist Mexico work to improve economic and social conditions at home to stem the tide of migration north. |
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