Deported immigration activist Elvira Arellano demonstrates at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY -- As President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City Thursday, a small group of immigration activists demonstrated at the U.S. Embassy on leafy Paseo de la Reforma, close to downtown. They were there to demand comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. and a stop to immigration raids and deportations.

Children who are U.S. citizens but now live in Mexico because of their parents' deportations were there. While President Obama said at his speech in the Democratic National Convention last year that no one "benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child," activists had hoped he would stop deportations with an executive order. That has not happened.

One of the protesters present was Elvira Arellano, who became known nationwide when she fought a deportation order in 2006 by seeking sanctuary inside a Chicago church. Arellano was finally deported in 2007 and now runs a migrant shelter in Tijuana, working for immigration reform from the other side of the border. She came to the embassy with her 10-year-old son, Saúl, a U.S. citizen.

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[FireBomberBassist]

The woman needs to learn to speak English before her argument is relevant.

[moosehead5757]

What gets me, when we have to send a person back for medical care from the USA, we are suck with a 30 thousand dollar bill. We send mexico the bill for their medical care and the USA gets no response. Oh heck no, we are sick of it.

[moosehead5757]

They can deman anything they want from OBAMA. The constitution says, WE THE PEOPLE!!! He works for the PEOPLE of this country. They have NO right to demand anything.

[mexicanheadswillroll]

fuck off you freeloading Mexican scum!

[slackaction]

stupid woman is a pawn and using her son as a pawn, she should be ashamed

[seriouslysad]

Anchor-Mom is just as disgusting as Octo -Mom.

[utahaztec]

She is a winner.

[dutevergului]

She's a loser.

[fernado2005b]

buen trabajo elvira pienso que eres una de nuestra heroinas y tengo fe de que pronto vas volver