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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2007 
Mexican Migrant Activist Camps Outside U.S. Embassy on Tenth Day Of Hunger Strike
 Associated Press
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| | Elvira Arellano, seated second from right, an immigrant who fought deportation and separation from her U.S. born son by living in a church in Chicago for about a year, talks with supporters during a hunger strike in front of the US Embassy in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. Aurellano has been staging a hunger strike for the last ten days. (AP/Alexandre Meneghini) |
Mexico City - A Mexican activist marked the 10th day of a hunger strike to demand better treatment of immigrants in the United States by camping out Monday on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Embassy.
"I decided to sit outside the embassy to protest pacifically ... to demand the legalization of our migrant community in the United States," said Elvira Arellano, a former illegal immigrant who turned to activism during a yearlong fight to stay in the U.S.
Arellano said she planned to collect signatures outside the embassy and present them to a U.S. congressional delegation due to visit on Wednesday.
"This is a sacrifice I want to make because I want them to listen to me ... so that all those injustices and the separation of families stop," she said.
Arellano had lived illegally in the U.S. for several years when she took sanctuary in a Chicago church. She was arrested and deported in August after leaving to give a speech in Los Angeles. |
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