Proving that rule of law and justice are not entirely dead in California, federal immigration authorities arrested illegal alien-anarchist Elvira Arrellano on a beautifully brilliant Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles.

Arrellano is the cowardly Mexican criminal who hid behind the Christian cross and her eight-year-old son in order to escape justice while squatting in a church near Chicago.

With the arrest of this contemptible criminal, Michael Chertoff has just 29,999,999 additional illegal aliens on his list to hunt down, arrest, and deport.

Do not lose hope, Michael! You can do it, provided that you and Dubya at least try!

At this point, our government needs to completely stop coddling and pampering invading criminals, and focus exclusively on doing the business of the American people.

That means that Homeland Security should arrange to fly Arellano back to Mexico non-stop tonight.

Shipping her back Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning is not good enough. This evil wretch needs to be grabbed by the neck and forcibly removed from America now!

Forget about more deportation hearings, due process, and all of the other nonsense that the ACLU and liberals will bring up in order to keep this third-world tramp in America and away from justice.

Remember Arellano was given due process in the past and was ordered by the courts to get the hell out. But like every illegal alien currently here, Arellano simply does not care about due process or rule of law.

All she is concerned with is protecting her own selfish interests.

ACLU lawyers and Democrats will wring their hands and cry in anguish about separating the saintly Arellano from her son, Saul. “We cannot break up families with such cold, calculated indifference,” they will scream.

They may have a point. To which I say, OK, let’s ship Saul and his renegade mother back to Mexico together, make it a family deportation.

In that manner, the youngster can be with his corrupt mother as long as necessary, while preserving the right to excercise his U.S. citizenship at an appropriate time in the future.

By doing the right thing in dealing with Elvira Arellano, our government can send a badly needed message to illegal aliens already here and those contemplating an invasion from Mexico and other third-world origins.

That message is: Illegal aliens will be hunted down, arrested, and deported as soon as possible, irrespective of family ties.

After all, illegal is illegal, family or not.

Sending such a message now will have the added benefit of causing illegal aliens to begin the process of self-deportation.

And that would be a wonderful thing!