Immigrant rights activist taken into ICE custody in Colorado without warning, advocacy groups say [View all]

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.

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