This article originally appeared in the Latina Lista blog. LatinaLista — Over the years in covering the immigration issue, if there is one thing that I’ve noticed, it’s that immigration is discussed by policymakers and politicians in a very sexist manner. It wasn’t until the mid-2000s that they, and the media, even acknowledged that women immigrants were part of the migration flow. It was Elvira Arellano , who fought her deportation from the U.S. to her native Mexico in 2007 by taking refuge in a Chicago church, who first opened Washington’s eyes that its decisions on immigration reform could...