Democrats are competing for federal immigration authorities to criticize the arrest of prominent illegal immigration activists, framing her as a simple grandmother who has not been legitimately processed. But she has a criminal history dating back more than 15 years and has long violated immigration laws, authorities say.

Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Jeanette Vizguerra, a 53-year-old Mexican national in the Denver area on Monday and confirmed with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The arrest was just the latest enforcement action against Vizguerra, a convicted criminal alien who has lived illegally in the United States for decades and has spent a considerable amount of time avoiding ice agents. (Related: Newsom Signal He won’t cut medical care for illegal immigrants despite rising costs)

Shortly after news of her arrest, the Denver mayor went to claim that the move was reminiscent of Vladimir Putin’s political persecution under Russia.

“Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother of American citizens, target employees, nonprofit leader and immigration reform advocate with no violent criminal history,” said Mayor Mike Johnston I said it on Tuesday. “Her detention is not security. This is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.”

Other Democrats lined up to question whether longtime illegal immigrants had undergone a “due process.”

“Jeanette Vizguerra is the mother and pillar of her community,” says Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet I said it on Tuesday. “I am deeply concerned about Ice’s actions to restrain her without legitimate proceedings, like the deportation order. ICE should ensure Janet has an attorney and release her soon.”

“It appears that detaining a grandma is not about public safety,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser I said it on Tuesday. “I have serious concerns about due process violations and are monitoring the situation.”

According to ICE, Vizguerra has countless run-ins with local and federal authorities. She has solidified herself as a prominent anti-ice activist for many years, and is famous Evacuated At the Denver Regional Church in 2017 to avoid deportation during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Illegal immigration activists found anti-ice groups such as Action Carolado’s abolished Ice Denver and Dreamer’s Mother and volunteered for the Sanctuary Union of Metro Denver. According to NBC News.

Because of her illegal immigration activities, she It has been named He was one of Time Magazine’s most influential people in 2017. Time profile failed to mention her belief in local crime and illegal entry into the US

Ice fought back violently against the suggestion that Vizguera was not undergoing a “due process.”

“Jeanette Vizguerra is a Mexican convicted criminal alien who has a final deportation order issued by a federal immigration judge,” an ICE spokesman told DCNF. “She illegally entered the United States near El Paso, Texas on December 24, 1997, and is subject to due process in the US immigration court.”

“Under President Trump [Homeland Security Secretary Kristi] Noem, we are once again a country of law. The spokesman will find, arrest and deport illegal foreigners, whether they are “the most figure of the year.” “If you come to our country illegally, we will deport you, and you will never return.”

ICE also provided the DCNF with a history of Vizguerra’s crime and immigration, dating back to 2009.

According to the agency, the Mexican citizen was found guilty in February 2009 for possessing a forged document. She was immediately taken to ice custody, but the agency released her after she posted immigrant bonds. That March, she was found guilty of driving without a license.

According to ICE, the immigration judge granted her a voluntary departure in November 2011, but did not self-declare until September 2012. A few months later, she was caught by the Border Patrol after trying to illegally enter the United States again, but was introduced to federal protections for illegal re-entry.

Vizguerra was convicted of illegal entry in Texas District Court in May 2013 and was sentenced to probation according to ICE. She introduced custody of the agency and the pre-deletion order was restored, but she was released from custody again and was eventually granted two separate applications for deportation, allowing her to temporarily remain in the US

Denver, Colorado – May 5: Janet Vizguera, 45, will take sanctuary at the First Baptist Church classroom held in Denver, Colorado on May 5, 2017. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

However, in February 2017, her subsequent application to remain in the United States under the auspices of the first Trump administration was rejected. After this denial, Vizguerra took refuge at Denver’s first Unitarian Association Church and did not report to the ice as ordered.

She used “long-standing ice policy.”Sensitive place“It banned deportation officers from arrests deemed to be suspended in churches, schools, hospitals and other areas.

From 2017 to 2019, ICE and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Agency repeatedly refused to apply for the removal of Vizguerra, other appeals and U-Visa petition, according to ICE officials. This series of rejections ended in December 2021, when Ice granted her a year of removal stay under the Biden administration and gave her another removal stay in February 2023.

Amid the dawn of the second Trump administration, the latest reprieve from deportation expired in February 2024. ICE confirmed to DCNF that he was detained at the Ice Denver contract detention facility after being arrested on March 17th.

“what [the Democrats’] John Fabricatore, a former Ice Denver field director who was directly involved in the Vizuguera incident, asked when he reached DCNF.

“She had multiple chances and bites on the apple. She was chosen to throw her middle finger every time under US law,” he said.

Now that she has been arrested again under the Trump administration, Fab Bricatore predicts that she will eventually be deported and not be released to the community.

“She doesn’t believe any law applies to her,” he added. “The truth is made available for people to see, but Democrats are trying to make this fantasy fairy tale story a story about her, but that’s not true.”

If Vizguerra is released from ice custody again, there is little chance that she will be able to avoid justice in another church. The Trump administration ended its delicate location policy in January, giving deportation officials the individual they wanted to hide anywhere in the country, but the lawsuit is now challenging this policy change.

Having vowed to implement the largest deportation operation in US history, Trump has embarked on a thorough list of executive orders and other administrative directives aimed at reaching this goal. One of the latest moves was the reboot of Biden-era asylum, which aimed to make illegal immigrants more easily self-reporting.

ICE encouraged other illegal immigrants to take self-abolition routes and could return legally in the future.

“The safest option for illegal aliens is self-abolition, so they still have the opportunity to live back in the American Dream,” an agency spokesman told DCNF.

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