Proponents for immigration, legislators and human rights groups have reduced the move, pointing to the mother of four deep ties in the Colorado community in which she lived for 30 years.
The arrest seems to be the first time that American authorities targeted the prominent deportation activist during the second term of President Donald Trump.
Private people say that the detention of Vizguerra is focused on the uncompensation. It comes in the midst of the wider deportation of Trump administration, which has extracted execution protection and has invited to the Law from the 18th century in an effort to expel undocumented people from the United States.
In social media post On Wednesday, the icy year’s office in Denver, Colorado, justified the arrest of Vizguerra by pointing out her past beliefs.
He has a wrong misdemeanor for 2009 for the use of a counterfeit number of social security for finding a job, as well as another violation of 2013. when she briefly returned home to Mexico to visit her dying mother. Was convicted at the time of illegal entry.
“It will remain in the custody of ice to its removal from the United States,” Ice said in the post.
However, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an older associate in the American Immigration Council, whether such treatment states that the criminal treatment of Vizguerra is.
He admitted that she “has several low-level violations as a result of being undocumented”. “But she is not a dangerous radical. It’s just funny”, he wrote On the Social Media Platform X.
Instead, he emphasized that in 2017. year appointed 100 most influential people in 2017. years.
“She is a well-respected Proponent in Colorado and a wider tube,” Reichlin-Melnick said. “The literal president of the United States has a more serious criminal records.”
Who is Jeanette Vizguerra?
Vizguerra initially came to the US from Mexico City in the 1990s with his wife, who faced several kidnappings in Mexico. She settled in Colorado, where she began working as a janitor and became involved in the organization of work.
Her first brush with American law has arrived during traffic stops in 2009. year, when it was found to carry a document with a false social security number.
Her verdictus kicked out the long battle against her deportation – and she launched more immigration advocacy work, because she tried to protect other undocumented people in Colorado.
She became associated with groups like Fallolod’s rights for all people and coalitions for immigrad in Colorado, and founded the branch of Coloradon’s mother’s dreamer organization in action.
But in 2017, the Trump President took office for the first time, with promises to implement the grain of immigration decay.
The passionate immediate deportation, Vizguerra sought refuge in double churches of Denver-Action, and the rank that catapulated in the National Reflector. Long government policy ban on immigration raids in sensitive locations such as churches at the time.
“I have decided not to hide my battle against deportation, but to make public attention to draw attention to the system’s lack of system,” Vizguerra in 2017. year, who published New York Times.
“I wanted to inspire my community to get out of the shadows and raising her voices.”
In May 2017. she received a temporary residence of deportation that allowed her to leave the church sanctuary. But she felt forced to return again in 2019. years after her visa application was allegedly rejected.
He eventually moved from Church 2020. years. The Administration of the US President Joe Biden later awarded her to the temporary “stay of deportation”.
In the Weather Shop 2017. Profile of Vizguerra, Actress America Ferrera praised activist to make “brave and risky” decisions to go public.
“The current administration has projects of immigrants, scared of Americans to believe that there are undocumented people like a criminal,” Ferrera wrote.
“Blood, sweat and tears to become a business owner, trying to give her children more than a crime. This is a crime. This is an American dream.”
Vizguerra was arrested on Monday in the car park where she worked.
Deportation push
The arrest of Vizguerra comes in the middle of a mass deportation under Trump, which are camping on promises to stop undocumented migration and overvoltage number of removal.
Since the introduction of duty, Trump quickly moved away from the Bidenska administrative policy that determined priority immigration actions against a low and non-violent offender.
The recent reference to the guidance arrested the arrests of thousands of individuals without criminal records, despite Trump’s claim that they would focus on those who considered threatening public security and national security.
In January, Trump administration also rolled a long-term policy that is prohibited to implement immigration in sensitive locations, including churches, schools and medical institutions.
Earlier this month, he began to refer to antien for aliens from 1798. to increase the expulsion, although the Federal Judge temporarily paused his use. This act is used only three times before, and only in cases of war.
Critics also accused Trump’s administration of targeted foreign nationals – including legal permanent residents – for their political views.
This includes attempted deports of Mahmoud Khalil, the Green Cards holder who led pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Columbia, as well as the expulsion of the Brown University Professor Rasha Alawieh, which in the US lectured on the Working Visa.
What kind of answer was it?
Some of the most common condemnation in the Biizguerre arrested have come from local elected officials.
In a widely joint video statement on Tuesday, the Mayor Denver Mike Johnston said that her detention was not “intended to hold our country security.”
“This is the travel persecution of political dissidents,” he said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Leader of the Accused for Human Rights Abuse.
The American Senator Michael Bennet praised Vizguerra as a “column of the community”. Meanwhile, Governor Jared Polis said that the Trump Administration owed public transparency in its proceedings.
“I met and I know Jeanette Vizguerr,” Polis said in the statement. “Jeanette’s mother and grandma, she spent decades in our country, helping in the community, business, there is no history of violence, not a threat to the community, and above all deserve the procedure in accordance with the law.”
Groups that are closely cooperating with Vizguer, including the Housing U.S. Committee for the Friend’s Service and the Association of the Homemade National Worker, also gathered public support for her case. Dozens of organizations have signed a letter calling for her release.
“Let’s be clear: These attacks are meant to cause us fear and silence, but we will protect each other”, “the domestic National Federal Published on X.
Fans on Tuesday gathered outside the center for custody in Aurora in which Vizguerra was held. Another protest is planned for Denver on Wednesday.
On the GofundMe page to raise remedies, the daughter of Vizguerre, Luna Baez, complained of community support.
“My mom ruthlessly struggled for my community and it’s time for us all to gather now and show all the support to her as if she did it,” she said.
What comes next?
Lawyers Vizguerra filed an emergency attraction, saying that her custody violated her right to proceedings.
In the Washington post statement, Laura Lichter said that immigration authorities rely on the removal order in 2013. years “Rife with procedural shortcomings”.
“There is no legal queue for removal, and Ice would have known this for years. If the LED continues to remove it without legal authority, it sends a refrigeration message on the agency due to the due procedure and the rule of law,” she said.
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