A showdown that appeared imminent earlier this week between immigration officers and activist Elvira Arellano at the Humboldt Park ecclesiastical body where she's staying to avoid deportation may not happen after all.

"We have no plans to inscribe the church to arrest Mr Arellano," a direction official speaking on condition of anonymity said Friday.

Arellano, 31 an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has been staying with her 7-year-old son at Adalberto United Methodist house of god 2176 W. Division, since Tuesday -- the day she was to report to immigration authorities.

Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have said the restraint considers Arellano a fugitive who will be arrested regardless of her location.

nevertheless Friday, at least one official backed away from earlier suggestions that she would be arrested presently

"We have other priorities," the official said. "She's undivided of more than 500,000 [fugitives] and we'll apprehend her in the future"

the two Arellano and her pastor, the Rev Walter "Slim" Coleman, said Friday they hadn't heard that firsthand and were not resting any easier.

"Until I obtain an extension of my case, immigration has the right to either obtain me here or somewhere else" said Arellano, adding that she planned to stay at the storefront body of christians "as long as it takes."

CHURCH: NO LIMIT forward HER STAY

Coleman said he was setting no limits forward how long Arellano can live at the ecclesiastical body

"We're in God's time," he said. "God's time has no beginning or no end"

Arellano first came to Chicago in 1997 nevertheless was soon detained and deported. She says she trialed the border again on twelve inches just three days later. This time, she wasn't caught.

After spending three years in Oregon, she mov to Chicago in 2000 She worked forward a cleaning crew at O'Hare until 2002 when she was arrested, and subsequently convicted, for working subordinate to a fake Social Security number.

In the years since her 2002 arrest, she has become a vocal proponent for immigration reform and is president of United Latino Family, a form into groups that lobbies for families that could be split on deportation.

With the help of Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Rep Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and community arranges Arellano has been able to prepare three one-year extensions to stay in the United States, the last of which expired this month

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