A Mexican woman who has already been deported to Mexico once, made it back here and took sanctuary in a church in Chicago.

Now, she decided to speak out against the injustices of our immigration system and got herself caught by ICE after speaking at 3 Los Angeles churches and on her way to a fourth.

Elvira Arrellano, a Mexican woman who sought sanctuary from deportation in a Chicago church was arrested Sunday in Los Angeles.

A spokesperson from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency would not confirm Arrellano was taken in by ICE agents on Olvera Street, near La Placita Church, in the Los Angeles Civic Center area at about 3 p.m.

Arellano and her son Saul, 8, who is a U.S. citizen, were in Los Angeles seeking immigration reform and were staying at La Placita Church.

She visited three area churches to speak about immigration, but was arrested before she could go to a fourth church.

Arellano defied a deportation order to report to the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 15, 2006. Instead, she sought refuge in the Adalberto United Methodist Church in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago.

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Arellano claims she seeks to remain in the United States so her American-born son can get medical care for his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

A legal guardian says her son, Saul, is taking his mother’s arrest better than expected.

She has two choices. Take her American-born son with ADHD with her to Mexico or leave him here in the care of a guardian while she goes back to Mexico.

I’m sure when I was a kid many people had what is now called ADHD or ADD or whatever. We just called them bad kids and their parents dealt with them at home. They usually adjusted and without meds.

Update and temporary bump: She’s now in Tijuana, which is just across the border to San Diego. Her son remains in the U.S. with his legal guardian.