I'm with Earl
The comparison of Elvira Arellano to Rosa Parks is insulting to the women and men who gave so much for the fundamental principle of racial equality. To quote the great Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail:
"You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there fire two types of laws: just and unjust. ... One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all'."
So to give Arellano a pass on this, you'd have to show that laws against identity theft are unjust. THAT was how she got busted. She consciously acquired a false Social Security card to get a job at an airport, which compromises security. Even if immigration activists believe it's immoral to have immigration laws and give Arellano a pass on sneaking across the border twice, you can't excuse the identity theft.
Would our heroes of the civil-rights movement have consciously broken laws such as these, then become activists only when they were caught and had to face responsibility for their actions?
Don't put Rosa Parks in that league.
Dude, I'm not giving a pass to anyone. I merely pointed out reasons for the comparison, which are true and inconvertible. You can pick it apart all you want with fancy language and technical differences, but it comes down to perspective. And many, many people see Elvira as a hero. Many other people, such as yourself, see her as nothing more than a criminal. And right there is yet another similarity between Elvira Arellano Ms. Rosa Parks. So, thanks for that.