Finally!

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 — The federal authorities said Monday that the deporting of a Mexican woman who had sought refuge in churches while being an advocate for illegal immigrant families had not signaled a crackdown on religious groups that provide aid to illegal immigrants.

Too Bad.

The woman, Elvira Arellano, 32, had defied a federal deportation order by spending much of the past year in a Chicago church seeking to raise awareness of how deportations can separate families. Ms. Arellano left the church over the weekend to visit churches around the country, joined by her 8-year-old son, Saul, who was born in the United States.

The only reason her son is considered a citizen is a misunderstanding of the constitutional amendment which was only intended to grant citizenship to the freed slaves and their children. It is long past time we corrected that misunderstanding.

On Sunday, after she spoke at Our Lady Queen of Angels, a Roman Catholic church in downtown Los Angeles, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her car a few blocks away and arrested her.

She got careless. That's how wanted criminals usually get caught.

Jim Hayes, the immigration agency’s Los Angeles field office director, said Ms. Arellano’s arrest was not a “message to the sanctuary movement as much as it is a message to criminal illegal aliens who are fugitives, that we are going to continue to target them.”

Why not? Let's send a message to the criminal enablers who aid and abet the illegal aliens.

Mr. Hayes said Ms. Arellano had been deported once before, after entering the country illegally in 1997. She re-entered and was convicted in 2002 of a felony, using a false Social Security card, which she used to acquire a job cleaning airplanes at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

If she has been kicked out before and re-entered and was convicted of a felony as well why are we deporting her rather than sending her to a federal prison for a very long time?