Mistress of the Absurd

Posted by: Ion | August 20th, 2007 · 10:46 AM

Freeloading fugitive felon, Elvira Arellano (or “activist” if you prefer MSM parlance), finally received a well deserved boot from our borders today. A happy occasion, as Elvira has been the source of considerable national annoyance for some time. Holing up in a church in Chicago for a year, in her best Manuel Noriega impression of pious victim of the empire, the illegal immigrant has become a bit of a cause célèbre for elements of the political Left and criminal sympathy groups of related sorts.

Despite her deportation obviously ruining her ambition to become a permanently unwelcome guest here, Elvira is confessing to no defeat. You see, as she would have it, her eviction was actually a great moral victory for her movement–which I suppose merely means she gained a little more publicity on television. A thousand years of Frenchmen would covet such a facile triumph.

But easy “victories” such as this are entirely in keeping with Elvira’s rather low-effort campaign of loitering. Fausta points out the charade of Elvira’s effort, with a fine bullet-point list this morning:

Nowhere in the thousands of words written about this case show any effort from Arellano in the past ten years to:

1. Learn the language
2. Legalize her immigration status under the existing laws
3. Accept the US as “her country”, even when she’s lived nearly one third of her life here, gave birth to her son here, and is adamant about staying “I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight.”
4. Most importantly, accept that the rule of law applies to everyone including herself.
(Fausta)

As it always does, it occurs to me that even this minimal exercise of effort on her part, could still be better applied to say, lobbying for improved conditions in her own country, rather than trying to dictate the laws of foreigners.

Perhaps the trouble with Fausta’s list, is that it’s a catalog of personal failures of effort. Individual failings such as these can hardly be apropos, given that at some point Elvira managed to appoint herself the representative of an entire “people.” Of course, as such an envoy Elvira merely transmutes the pathetic to the preposterous.

That’s because if Elvira is to be the ambassador for externally enforced political change against the popular will, the Mexican political experience is hardly the proudest platform from which to do it. I’m sorry to say we don’t envy the grand history of your people Elvira (well, the Emilio Zapata-idolizing John McCain aside).

Indeed, on a reading of the history, some of us might go so far as to say the rancid political traditions and present policies of Mexico, more closely resemble something we ought to go to war against, rather than import or embrace. The official Mexican ambassador is inclined to agree too. But who needs him, when you can have a sub-literate identity thief and unemployed maid for your champion.

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