Heroine of the week

Elvira Arellano, who is taking sanctuary in a Chicago church. She compares herself to Rosa Parks, with good reason: like Parks, Arellano isn't just a random harassed immigrant, but apparently the president of La Familia Latina Unida, an organization that, no surprise, lobbies for immigrants' rights.

Hard worker, political activist, devoted mama, smart woman. Exactly the kind of person you'd think we need more of in these United States.