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How Trump finally nailed illegal immigrant activist — touted by Time magazine — who used churches to evade ICE for years: ‘Horrible and smug’
NY Post ^ | March 19, 2025 | Jennie Taer

Posted on 03/20/2025 6:28:04 AM PDT by Salman

The Trump administration finally nabbed an immigration activist who eluded federal agents for years and hid in churches where she was shielded from arrest.

Jeanette Vizguerra, a 53-year-old Mexican mom of four, was once named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People for hiding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a Colorado church.

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.

Vizguerra was arrested Monday by ICE as the Trump administration carried out a mass deportation raid. ICE Former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore spent 15 years trying to collar Vizguerra, whom he calls a “horrible and smug” criminal who led the “abolish ICE movement” in Colorado.

“We’ve known about her for years and she’s gone through the whole immigration process,” Fabbricatore told The Post.

“This woman should’ve been removed in 2009,” he added.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; jeanettevizguerra; vizguerra
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Horrible and smug? I know the type.
1 posted on 03/20/2025 6:28:04 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman
Horrible and smug?

"Did someone call my name?"


2 posted on 03/20/2025 6:31:26 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Salman

> hid in churches where she was shielded from arrest <

Wait a minute. It’s not the Middle Ages anymore. There’s no such thing as church sanctuary. If she’s hiding in a church, get a warrant and arrest her at the church.

No different than if she were hiding in a bus station or a dentist’s office.


3 posted on 03/20/2025 6:36:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Salman

And they’re all leftists.


4 posted on 03/20/2025 6:40:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Leaning Right

And if a church could offer sanctuary, would the Unitarian church where she was, aka religion for atheists, count?


5 posted on 03/20/2025 6:44:59 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Salman

So she was taking a job away from an American?

How did Target hire this illegal alien? Will they be punished?


6 posted on 03/20/2025 6:45:12 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Salman

I saw that article yesterday.

I sent an email to the writers.

They misspelled “illegal alien.”


7 posted on 03/20/2025 6:48:04 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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I would not call a Unitarian church a “church”. It is just a leftist hangout.


8 posted on 03/20/2025 6:48:04 AM PDT by frogjerk
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“How did Target hire this illegal alien? Will they be punished?”

my first thought as well; my second thought was that it’s likely this illegal alien was using stolen and/or fabricated ID ...


9 posted on 03/20/2025 6:54:24 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: TheDon

You know all those people listed in Social Security over 100 years old which were disclosed by the DOGE team ??

I bet there is a high likelihood that one of those bogus social security numbers was used to verify citizenship for this person.

A bunch of Democrats are saying DOGE is full BS because none of these number disclosed by DOGE is getting a social security check and that may very well be true, those bogus social security numbers are being used to verify citizenship so companies can employ illegal aliens and evade the law.


10 posted on 03/20/2025 6:54:43 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Leaning Right

This is Denver, apparently a city run by mental defectives,


11 posted on 03/20/2025 6:57:02 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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"...would not call a Unitarian church a “church”..."

Where I used to work, our chief engineer once told us he was a Unitarian. He said, "When we prayed it was, 'to whom it may concern'. The last time anyone said Je*&s Ch*^%t in church was when the janitor fell down the stairs."

12 posted on 03/20/2025 6:57:30 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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ICE chief John Fabbricatore spent 15 years trying to collar Vizguerra,

They caught her in the parking lot of the Target where she worked?

John either wasn’t looking very hard or is incompetent.

13 posted on 03/20/2025 7:03:31 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (MAGA)
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To: Leaning Right

Revoking tax status is a good start if they want to play from the men’s tees.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 7:26:07 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Target store in Denver where she worked

So when is Target going to be fined for this. She was known to be illegal and was infamous. They have no excuse for not knowing she was illegal.


15 posted on 03/20/2025 7:27:07 AM PDT by pas
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Build her a jail cell that looks like a church then THROW HER IN IT and forget about her.


16 posted on 03/20/2025 7:29:38 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Salman

TARGET: WHOSE SOCIAL NUMBER WAS SHE USING???


17 posted on 03/20/2025 7:30:58 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: pas

FINE===$5,000 per day/ per worker


18 posted on 03/20/2025 7:32:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Salman

she rolled the dICE.


19 posted on 03/20/2025 7:34:14 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Delta 21

“ Build her a jail cell that looks like a church then THROW HER IN IT and forget about her.”

Post of the Week™


20 posted on 03/20/2025 7:39:02 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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