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a major colorado The immigration and labor activist was released Monday after spending nine months in immigration detention, supporters said.
Janet Vizguera leaves an immigration detention center in suburbia denver She can post a $5,000 bond a day after a judge’s decision, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which is working with Vizguerra’s attorneys and her family.
The group released photos of Vizguera, a mother of four, standing with her daughter, son-in-law and grandson just outside the gates of the center in Aurora, Colorado.
Vizguerra rose to fame after taking refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid relegation in the first round. trump Administration. Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people in the world in 2017. He was arrested in a Denver-area parking lot earlier this year. Target The store where she worked.
in a statement on Tuesday Department of Homeland Security Vizguerra said he had received “full due process” and would continue to do his job.
It says, “We will find, arrest, and deport illegal aliens, even if they are ‘Time’s Person of the Year.'”
Vizguerra, who came to Colorado from Mexico City in 1997, has been fighting deportation since 2009, when she was pulled over in suburban Denver and found to have a fake Social Security card with her name and date of birth on it but someone else’s real number, according to a 2019 lawsuit she brought against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The lawsuit says Vizguerra did not know at the time that the number belonged to someone else.
Vizguerra’s lawyers have said ICE was attempting to deport him based on an order that was never valid and have challenged his detention in federal court.
A federal judge recently ordered that a bond hearing be held in immigration court to determine whether Vizguerra should continue to be held in a suburban Denver detention facility pending his case.
In a statement released by the American Friends Service Committee, Vizguerra thanked his lawyers, who have been working mostly pro bono on his case.
“They understand that this issue is bigger than me. This fight is about the constitutional rights of all of us, the human rights and the dignity of all people,” he said.