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(165,763 posts) Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:19 AM Mar 2025

Immigrant rights activist taken into ICE custody in Colorado without warning, advocacy groups say

Source: Scripps News

Posted 3:35 PM, Mar 18, 2025

A Colorado immigrant rights activist was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Aurora without warning on Monday night, according to an immigrant advocacy group.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) said in a Facebook post that ICE detained Jeanette Vizguerra without warning and appears ready to deport her back to Mexico. Vizguerra is the founder of the Metro Denver Sanctuary Coalition.

AFSC and Coloradans for Immigrant Rights said Vizguerra is not allowed to contact her family from the ICE facility, and her family said they are concerned for her safety. They protested her detention outside the Aurora ICE Processing Center Tuesday morning.

The organization created a petition and set up a GoFundMe to reunite Vizguerra with her family. One of Vizguerra's four children wrote in the fundraiser's description that their mother was detained outside her job at Target. In a statement later Tuesday, Vizguerra's family said she was still inside the GEO Aurora ICE Detention Facility.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/immigrant-rights-activist-taken-into-ice-custody-in-colorado-without-warning-advocacy-groups-say

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Immigrant rights activist taken into ICE custody in Colorado without warning, advocacy groups say (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 OP

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #1

.............. Vizguerra was a reported survivor of violence who escaped from Mexico City to the U.S. in 1997 with he riversedge Mar 2025 #2

Authoritarians love political prisoners. AZLD4Candidate Mar 2025 #3

I don't think that they intend to keep him imprisoned for very long Jose Garcia Mar 2025 #4

It's her, not him oberle Mar 2025 #5

It's her Miguelito Loveless Mar 2025 #8

They want to deport her, not imprison her Jose Garcia Mar 2025 #9

It looks like she is not here with official legal status hueymahl Mar 2025 #6

Some good maggot probably turned her in. NBachers Mar 2025 #7

SunSeeker

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1. K & R for exposure.

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riversedge

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2. .............. Vizguerra was a reported survivor of violence who escaped from Mexico City to the U.S. in 1997 with he

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Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:15 AM

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Vizguerra was a reported survivor of violence who escaped from Mexico City to the U.S. in 1997 with her husband and eldest daughter, who was then six years old.

Colorado democratic leaders respond to Vizguerra's arrest

In response to Monday's detention, Colorado's U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said the following on social media:

Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother and pillar in her community. I am deeply concerned about ICE's actions to detain her without any due process, like a deportation order. ICE should ensure Jeanette has legal counsel and immediately release her.

U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper also commented on the reported detention saying:

There are serious concerns about ICE’s actions to detain Jeanette Vizguerra. Targeting a mother who has been an active part of our Colorado community for nearly three decades will not fix our broken immigration system or secure our border.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who recently faced a Congressional committee to justify the city's immigration policies, called Vizguerra's arrest a "Putin-style persecution of political dissidents."