Trump exacts revenge on Jeanette Vizguerra, a prominent Colorado migrant advocate
The undocumented activist, one of ‘Time’ magazine’s most important voices of 2017, took refuge in a Denver church for nearly 90 days during the Republican’s first administration to avoid deportation
Mexican activist Jeanette Vizguerra was arrested Monday morning by immigration authorities in Aurora, Colorado. “My mother was detained on March 17 outside the Target store where she works by a handful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, while they laughed in her face,” confirmed Luna Baez, one of Vizguerra’s four daughters. The undocumented migrant has been fighting deportation since 2009, when she was detained for a minor trafficking incident in the Denver metropolitan area. Vizguerra has since become an advocate for people in her same situation. She created a network of sanctuaries within several area churches, providing protection to dozens of migrants charged with minor offenses who faced the risk of being expelled from the United States.
