Time Magazine reported that one of the TIME100 of 2017, an illegal immigrant who entered the United States on Christmas Eve in 1997, was arrested by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE).
“In 1997 Jeanette left Vizguerra Mexico City to Colorado, where she became a lawyer for caretaker and immigration,” De Wednesday Article read in time. “Twenty years later she was one of the most influential people in the world.”
On Monday, Vizguerra was reportedly arrested by Ice at a target where she worked in the Denver area.
Jeanette Vizguerra, who is illegal in the US and has taken a sanctuary in First Baptist Church of Denver, holds her son Santiago in Denver, Colorado on 12 May 2017. Vizguerra was arrested this week and held by the immigration authorities. (Getty Images)
She was known for staying in churches to demand lavish against ice enforcement, a policy of the government of former President Biden that illegal immigrants enabled to stay in churches or schools to prevent arrest, The Trump administration has been withdrawn Is January. 21, 2025.
In Time’s report about the arrest of Vizguerra, it quoted it 2017 Time100 -list profile van Vizguerra who was written by actress America Ferrera.
“Jeanette moved to the US to become a caretaker, worked as an outspoken organizer of the Union and built her own company before he became an advocate for immigration reform – a daring and risky for an immigrant without papers,” Ferrera’s tribute to Vizguerra.
“The current administration has scapegoat with scapegoat, who scares Americans to believe that people without papers are like Jeanette are criminals. She came to this country not to rape, kill or sell drugs, but to create a better life for her family … This is not a crime. Donald Trumpthe first term in office.
Migrants who were deported from the American stand on the Border Bridge Bridge of El Chaparral in Tijuana, Mexico, at the end of Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Felix Marquez/AP)
In addition to the illegal crossing of the United States, Vizguerra was Allegedly stopped by the police in 2009 And charged with driving without a driver’s license, insurance or registration, but those costs were ultimately rejected.
In 2012, Vizguerra “confident“To Mexico, before he went to the United States again illegally and was arrested on April 22, 2013 by the American border patrouille.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Mayor of Denver Mike Johnston called Vizguerra “A mother of American citizens, an objective of the target, a non -profit leader and a lawyer for immigration reform without violent criminal history.” He then shot the Trump government and said, “Her detainment is not about safety. This is prosecution in Putin-style of political dissidents.”
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Fox News Digital Reached for Ice, the office of the American lawyers for the Colorado district, Laura Lichter, who is said to represent Vizguerra, as well as Johnston, but did not immediately receive a response.
