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Church provides sanctuary for Mexican woman

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Elvira Arellano is a Mexican woman who when threatened with deportation by the US government took refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago in August 2006. She remained there with her son Saul, until her arrest and deportation in August, 2007, in Los Angeles. She is seen here in 2006 in the Chicago church which was her home for over a year.

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Elvira Arellano is a Mexican woman who when threatened with deportation by the US government took refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago in August 2006. She remained there with her son Saul, until her arrest and deportation in August, 2007, in Los Angeles. She is seen here in 2006 in the Chicago church which was her home for over a year.