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The Post is not a valid source. It's owned by Murdoch, and he is a self-confessed lying sack of shit.
We've talked about this.After years of chasing her, ICE finally got its hands on Vizguerra Monday when she was in the parking lot of the Target store in Denver where she worked, according to Jordan Garcia, another immigrant rights activist, told the New York Times.
How Trump finally nailed illegal immigrant activist — touted by Time magazine — who used churches to evade ICE for years: ‘Horrible and smug’
“We’ve known about her for years and she’s gone through the whole immigration process,” former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore told The Post.nypost.com
Vizguerra crossed the Texas border illegally in 1997, an ICE spokesperson told The Post.
She first found herself the target of ICE in 2009 during the Obama administration, when she was pulled over in Denver and found to have a fake Social Security card with her own name and birth date but someone else’s number on it.
At the time, the Mexican national claimed she didn’t know the number was someone else’s.Two months later, Vizguerra was caught driving without a license and insurance, ICE said.
An immigration judge gave Vizguerra the opportunity to leave the US on her own terms, which she failed to do.
The next year, she left for Mexico while she was appealing her removal and then crossed again into the US illegally and was subsequently convicted of illegal entry, a felony which resulted in a year of probation, ICE said.
She again received a deportation order in 2013. But the Obama administration paused the order, allowing her to stay.
When President Trump entered office for the first time, her removal order was reinstated. However, her attorney “notified ICE that she would be taking sanctuary in the First Unitarian Society Church in Denver and would not be reporting to ICE as ordered,” the agency said.
Vizguerra moved into the basement of the Colorado church in 2019 with her three youngest children, all of whom were born in the US, where they sought refuge on and off for the next three years.
She was even given the opportunity to leave on her own on a commercial flight through a deal Fabbricatore and her attorney agreed to, but she failed to depart and again went into hiding in another church, according to the former ICE chief.
She later tried to get a visa, claiming she was a victim of a crime, but her application was denied.
When President Joe Biden came into power, the feds again paused her deportation until February 2024.
In response to Vizguerra’s latest arrest, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston accused the Trump administration of carrying out “Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.”
The Post is not a valid source. It's owned by Murdoch, and he is a self-confessed lying sack of shit.
