After years of evading federal authorities by taking refuge in churches, immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra has been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 53-year-old Mexican mother of four, once named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, was arrested Monday in the parking lot of a Target store in Denver, where she worked.
Vizguerra had been a vocal leader in the “Abolish ICE” movement in Colorado, repeatedly avoiding deportation despite multiple removal orders. Former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore, who spent 15 years tracking her, described her as a “horrible and smug” criminal who manipulated the immigration system. “We’ve known about her for years, and she’s gone through the whole immigration process. This woman should’ve been removed in 2009,” Fabbricatore told The Post.
Now in custody at an ICE detention center in Aurora, Vizguerra is awaiting deportation, reports the New York Post.
Vizguerra first crossed into the U.S. illegally through Texas in 1997. Her legal troubles began in 2009 under the Obama administration when she was pulled over in Denver and found carrying a fraudulent Social Security card with her name but another person’s number. She claimed ignorance about the number belonging to someone else.
Just two months later, she was caught driving without a license or insurance. She was ordered to leave the country voluntarily but did not comply.
In 2010, while appealing her removal, Vizguerra returned to Mexico but later reentered the U.S. illegally. This led to a conviction for illegal entry, a felony that resulted in a year of probation. Another deportation order was issued in 2013, but the Obama administration paused her removal, allowing her to stay.
When Donald Trump became president in 2017, her deportation order was reinstated. Rather than complying, Vizguerra took sanctuary in Denver’s First Unitarian Society Church, where she and her three youngest U.S.-born children lived intermittently for three years. In 2019, she entered an agreement with ICE that would have allowed her to leave on a commercial flight, but instead, she went into hiding in another church.
“She was supposed to go to the Denver airport the next day,” Fabbricatore recalled. “Instead of going, she goes into another church and claimed sanctuary in that other church, totally screwing over the agreement.”
In an attempt to obtain legal status, Vizguerra later applied for a visa, claiming she was a victim of a crime. Her application was denied.
When President Joe Biden took office, her deportation was once again paused until February 2024. However, ICE agents finally caught up with her outside her workplace this week.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston condemned the arrest, comparing it to “Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.”
Her children, how old are they? Who’s the father? Is he even around? Don’t wait another minute get her out of our country!!
She has an almost Folk Hero status with the ANTI-ICE crowd – both Media and local politicians – looking at you Mayor.
“She has a job and children and has been here for years” is the mantra. ICE lied – they said they were only targeting criminals – She is not a criminal. is more of what they say.
I say deport her NOW
Johnston does not like the laws.
Another DEMON RAT who thinks the federal laws do not apply to his side.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, please, take away ALL FEDERAL monies coming to Colorado.
Only then, maybe, will that ass, stupid ass, will understand no to play around with the law.
Target holds responsibility for employing an illegal.
Incredible! For years she has broken our laws. Send her to El Salvador and see if she can get out of there. Fomenting sedition and insurrection in our country, as well as subversion. In many countries that would get you life imprisonment or worse.
She is no one special. She and her children must be deported. She is an illegal person and just because her children were born here doesn’t make them automatic citizens. Either deport her or let her sit in a federal prison for providing false documents of identification to authorities. Then when her sentence is finished here let her join her children in Mexico when she gets out. No deals.
Totally agree deport her and her children they should be with her..Also remove the tax free status from the churches who have harbored her.
100% agree! But do not let her or her children live here not one more day! They, like her, are NOT US CITIZENS!!!!
Great. Deport that illegal back where she belongs. Breaking our laws to come here will not be tolerated. Deport ALL of them.
Does not matter how old they are. They are illegal just she is. Having children while here illegally does not make your children citizens. About time these people are dealt with.
Understand, that the socio-communist left, and yes that is what they are, uses these people for political gains. Anyone living and tolerating this ( voting out of ignorance ) is an economic “slave” no different than in the past.
These people, humanist by their ideology, actually do not care about the person, as even UNESCO the vaunted UN ed program considers people “Biological resources” or in plain english ( lower than any Animal species ).
By the slightest research measures, America is a Christian derived and Founding Documents protected country.
The cultures being intentionally imported, in some cases in their own country require a penalty fee for being Christian.
Ignorance is not bliss, and the UN must be rejected, Socio-communism must be rejected. Liberal-ism is in fact a mental illness. here is one example- well two:
– 1916 – Dewey & Education 1916 – Socialist Leader John Dewey’s Textbook still used today, Dewey said dependency is a power, individuality is an illness. There-upon the sane are insane, the dependent is sane, as he needs the community. The collective is the norm. By 1934 ( L.I.D. ) League for Industrial Democracy had student groups in 150 colleges.
( Think Hillarys “it takes a village”
– 1923 still ongoing- Communist Psychopolitics – The description of a course taught at the “Lenin Institute” to Americans sent by John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller was member of the CFR, and other atheistic entities.
– This course still exists. What is “Psychopolitics? The art & science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of Individuals, Officers, bureaus, and Masses and the effecting of the conquest of enemy Nations through “Mental Healing” Psychopolitics, is a less known oblique to Geo-politics, dealing with molding the highest strata of the “Mental Healing” arena – through this effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through “mental Healing”. Objective, conquest through social chaos. Beria, Mass Murderer of entire villages in the Russian conquests, was the Professor of the 2 year course.
– Authors note: Beria was the longest-surviving and the most influential of Stalin’s secret police chiefs of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The responsibility of the NKVD was to ensure the internal security of the Soviet Union and it systematically did so through massive political repression, authorized murders of many hundreds of thousands of politicians and citizens, kidnappings, assassinations, and mass deportations. He was executed by “Stalin who was a complete psychopath, and executioner of over 60 million innocent.
She should be deported. Period. She has had the luxury of staying here far too long.
What don’t you get? You come into the country illegally, you’re a criminal. She was asked nicely to leave but has not. Then went back to Mexico and then re entered illegally again. Sorry…you deserve to go bye bye.
First, she should spend 2-4 years in federal prison for using fake documents (the law states that) and then deport her back to Mexico.