I'm not too sure what they think gives them the right to remove someone from a Catholic Church. If I were the Pope I would be livid... Bush's phone would be ringing off the hook.
But she wasn't in the church, she came outside to give a press conference and ended giving the reporters more of a story that she'd intended. Oops! In any case, even if one recognizes the right of churches to unilaterally grant sanctuary, Elvira didn't even attempt to claim political asylum status. She was a purely economic migrant. Although I suppose if one really wanted to stretch things beyond their proper shape, she could have claimed that she was being persecuted in the United States and gone to Mexico to seek asylum status there.
That's differeny. I only breezed the article to be honest.
