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| | '''Elvira Arellano''' (born 1975) [[Mexican]] citizen, a thirty-one-year-old woman. She was an [[illegal immigrant]] and a fugitive from justice. Her son Saul was born in America in 1999. | | '''Elvira Arellano''' (born 1975) [[Mexican]] citizen, a thirty-one-year-old woman. She was an [[illegal immigrant]] and a fugitive from justice. Her son Saul was born in America in 1999. |
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| | Arellano is president<ref>[https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rally-fights-deportation-keep-families-together/ Rally fights deportation: Keep families together]</ref><ref>[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.telemundochicago.com/noticias/Elvira-Arellano-intenta-cruzar-la-frontera-274256021.html&prev=search Elvira Arellano tries to cross the border]</ref> of an organization called ''United Latino Family'',(''La Familia Latina Unida'') which lobbies for families that could be split by deportation. She has become something of a local symbol for those who most ardently believe U.S. immigration law is patently unfair. | | Arellano is president<ref>[https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rally-fights-deportation-keep-families-together/ Rally fights deportation: Keep families together]</ref><ref>[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.telemundochicago.com/noticias/Elvira-Arellano-intenta-cruzar-la-frontera-274256021.html&prev=search Elvira Arellano tries to cross the border]</ref> of an organization called ''United Latino Family'',(''La Familia Latina Unida'') which lobbies for families that could be split by deportation. She has become something of a local symbol for those who most ardently believe U.S. immigration law is patently unfair. |
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| | + | ===Website history== |
| | According to the [[Wayback Machine]], the earliest entry of the website for Arellano's organization started out calling itself "La Familia Latina Unida - Pueblo Sin Fronteras".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070912150327/https://www.familialatinaunida.com/ La Familia Latina Unida - Pueblo Sin Fronteras], September 2007</ref> | | According to the [[Wayback Machine]], the earliest entry of the website for Arellano's organization started out calling itself "La Familia Latina Unida - Pueblo Sin Fronteras".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070912150327/https://www.familialatinaunida.com/ La Familia Latina Unida - Pueblo Sin Fronteras], September 2007</ref> |
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| | In 2012, the website is re-launched as a dedication to the work of [[Emma Lozano]] and Arellano, this time calling itself La Familia Latina Unida/Centro Sin Fronteras. Centro Sin Fronteras is an organization founded by Lozano in 1987 to keep the legacy of Lozano's brother Rudy alive.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205221823/http://www.familialatinaunida.com/12.html The History of La Familia Latina Unida/Centro Sin Fronteras], February 2012</ref> | | In 2012, the website is re-launched as a dedication to the work of [[Emma Lozano]] and Arellano, this time calling itself La Familia Latina Unida/Centro Sin Fronteras. Centro Sin Fronteras is an organization founded by Lozano in 1987 to keep the legacy of Lozano's brother Rudy alive.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205221823/http://www.familialatinaunida.com/12.html The History of La Familia Latina Unida/Centro Sin Fronteras], February 2012</ref> |
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| | + | By 2014, the website is openly listing Adalberto UMC and Lincoln UMC's Damen ave address as its contact locations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140517041723/https://www.familialatinaunida.com/ Centro Sin Fronteras]</ref> Lincoln UMC is Adalberto's sister congregation.<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-elvira-arellano-immigration-chicago-20140323-story.html Immigration protester back at Chicago church that sheltered her]</ref> |
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| | + | [[Image:Next door.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Close company]] |
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| | + | Currently, the contact location is on 22nd place and not actually at either of the churches. Its right next door. |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |