Flor Crisostomo: the new Elvira Arellano (sanctuary at Adalberto United Methodist Church)
Via this we learn that Reverend Walter "Slim" Coleman's Adalberto United Methodist Church continues the struggle for in effect open borders with the announcement that they'll be giving "sanctuary" to another illegal alien, Flor Crisostomo. That church grabbed headlines recently for hosting Elvira Arellano, before she was arrested and deported to Mexico, where she remains.
Crisostomo's statement says in part:
"I am taking a stand of civil disobedience... I believe with all my heart that the United States and Mexico must end the system of undocumented labor."
Obviously, "civil disobedience" requires one to be a citizen; when foreign citizens do it it's something else. And, most Americans would also like to end the "system of undocumented labor", just not in the way she wants.
Crisostomo was arrested in an immigration raid at IFCO Systems in Chicago in 2006. More on that raid here, here, and here. In November of last year she held a hunger strike and protested in front of Rahm Emanuel's office, claiming he wasn't being "democratic" enough for her. That protest may have been the one organized by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which is headed by someone linked to the Mexican government.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) offered a private relief bill for her, Arellano, and several others (H.R. 2182, link). She was part of the May 1, 2007 pro-illegal immigration march and was part of the Centro Sin Fronteras delegation that joined with the March 10 Movement to organize that march; one leader of the latter group is an official with Mexico's PRD Party (Jorge Mujica). Regarding that march:
Flor Crisostomo wants everybody to know she's in this country illegally. So does Maria del Carmen Santana... The two immigrants from Mexico share the in-your-face attitude that marks preparations for Tuesday's immigration march in downtown Chicago... "Our community is very angry, very, very angry," said Crisostomo... Crisostomo is helping to organize Tuesday's march, making signs and joining in a hunger strike. She decided to speak publicly, she said, "so the greater community can understand we're not here to live on welfare or to not pay taxes. We're part of a bigger problem that needs to be fixed." ...
It also says she had a fake ID, obviously a very common occurrence. Whether it also involved identity theft isn't known. Other reports from People's Weekly world (link) and Socialist Worker (link).
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politwriter (not verified)
Mon, 01/28/2008 - 08:46
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HS 13678 tfaber2004@yahoo.com 2008-01-28T10:46:45-06:00
Why isn't the Justice Department proceeding with a RICO, organized crime, prosecution of Rev. "Slim", the Centro Sin Fronteras operatives and others who are clearly engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to violate federal laws? There is a readily identifiable ongoing pattern of criminal activity centered around this storefront "church." The Chicago Tribune reported that the illegal asylum seeker needed a translator at her news conference. In her 7 years of illegally squatting in our country, she apparently didn't even bother to learn a word of our language. So much for assimilating into the melting pot.
amanda (not verified)
Mon, 01/28/2008 - 09:10
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HS 13679 asdfjklsc@yahoo.com 2008-01-28T11:10:37-06:00
'We're part of a bigger problem that needs to be fixed' What needs to be fixed is governmental corruption and immigration law enforcement so lax for so long that such defiant 'I have a right' attitudes have taken deep root. Along with a foreign government agitating right here in the U.S. and attempting to create de facto U.S.-Mexican integration.