Mom filled with worry, pride as son fights her deportation

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Wed, Nov 15, 2006 6:40AM

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- From a second-floor bedroom in a storefront church, Elvira Arellano scanned the Internet for news of her son -- a 7-year-old boy who had traveled to Mexico to ask that nation to help his family and others like them.

Dozens of Web site links flashed on her screen. Many featured headlines about the boy's appearance before Mexico's 500-member Chamber of Deputies and his plea that Mexico lobby Washington to stop the deportation of his mother.

Arellano, 31, who has taken refuge in the Methodist church during the past three months, learned that her son Saul had succeeded. Mexican lawmakers passed a resolution Tuesday asking President Bush to suspend his mother's deportation and that of any other illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizens.

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