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supporter of a chief colorado Immigration and labor activists say an immigration judge has ruled she can pay bond and be released after spending nine months in custody.
Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee, who is working with attorneys for Vizguerra and her family, said the judge issued a written decision Sunday allowing Janet Vizguerra to post $5,000 bond. He said Vizguera’s family and a nonprofit group that helps pay bonds for people in immigration detention were working Monday to post the bond, which could take a day or more to process.
Emails seeking comment from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security Was not returned immediately.
Vizguerra rose to fame after taking refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid relegation in the first round. trump Administration. He was arrested in a Denver-area parking lot Target The store where he worked on March 17.
Vizguera, who came to Colorado from Mexico City in 1997, has been fighting deportation since 2009 after being pulled over to the suburbs. denver And according to a 2019 lawsuit brought against ICE, he was found to have a fake Social Security card with his name and date of birth on it, but the actual number belonged to someone else. It said 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 be held in a detention facility in suburban Denver as his immigration case is pending.