I'm girding my loins! 
We've picked a bad day - I'm already on a tear over the misuse of undocumented immigrants to further social change:
ASSOCIATED PRESSIllegal Immigrant Who Sought Sanctuary in Chicago Church Deported
LOS ANGELES —
An immigration activist who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year to avoid being separated from her son has been deported to Mexico, the church's pastor said.
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Arellano, 32, became a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents when she took refuge in the church to avoid being separated from her 8-year-old son, a U.S. citizen.
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Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O'Hare International Airport.
She was arrested in 2002 at O'Hare and convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last year.
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Immigration activists responded with anger to her arrest, and promised protests and vigils to support her.
"We are sad, but at the same time we are angry," said Javier Rodriguez, a Chicago immigration activist who worked with Arellano. "How dare they arrest this woman?"
Anti-illegal immigrant groups said the arrest was long overdue.
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Why do advocates for social change always pick the worst examples to publicize?
A. The woman entered the U.S -illegally - OK, an infraction, like a traffic ticket.
B. She is deported and then re-enters the country illegally - OK- now were up to a serious misdemeanor at least.
C. She falsifies information to obtain a job; is arrested, and convicted - now she is a criminal.
D. She fails to obey a court order to surrender - now she is a felon fugitive.
E. She seeks a phony sanctuary in a church and thumbs her nose at authorities.
F, She leaves the church with much publicity to protest against the government
G. She gets arrested and deported - NO KIDDING!
And, now, I am supposed to feel sorry for the family because the felon Mama abandoned her child - PLEASE!
If the immigration rights folks want to gain some sympathy for their cause, find an undocumented immigrant couple, both employed without resorting to falsifying SSNs, neither of whom has an arrest record, with a mix of undocumented and US born children, and then pick them up for deportation. (Now, you must address the issue of splitting the family between legal and illegal - and you are also removing the sole means of support for the US born children. - NOW YOU GET SOME SYMPATHY!
der Brucer
PS I would improve on the above scenario by finding an undocumented couple of obvious northern-Europen genetic heritage.
