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Elvira Continues To Abuse Her Son

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Chicago, April 28, 2008.- “I want to be a normal boy, but I can’t said Saull, son of the undocumented Mexican Elvira Arellano, who now has been added to the fight to fight for the migrant Mexicans in the United States.

The boy of nine years of age arrived on Saturday to Chicago to participate in the events organized by the movement for immigrants, including the massive march on May 1st.

Saúl came in representation of his mother, who hid last year in a church to elude an order of deportation, until she was placed under arrest last August and deported to Tijuana.

This Monday, the child participated in a press conference with other children that integrate a campaign against the separation of families by deportations, in which he barely gave some words.

A day before been present in a religious service carried out in the Adalberto Methodist church, where he found refuge with his mother.

Saúl was quiet and evasive, and under the insistence of some in the mass media he expressed: “I want to be a normal boy, but I can’t”.

The small one, who was born and went to to the third grade in the United States, has already changed from English to Spanish as his main tongue.

That is why he resorted to Ema Lozano, his godmother and leader of the Central group Without Borders, so she can translate his words and respond to a question that a reporter in English gave him.

“He said that he should be a free boy, and not a boy that has to fight continuously to defend his mother,” stated Lozano.

Saúl recognized that it causes him to be a little nervous to participate in a massive protest as the one that is prepared for Thursday May 1 in this city.

In the scarce statements that he did, he affirmed that he felt happy to live in Mexico in complete liberty and next to his mother, as it has been for more than eight months.