Time Magazine reported one of his Lists Time100 2017, an illegal immigrant who crossed the United States the day before Christmas in 1997, was arrested by immigration and customs application (ICE).
“In 1997, Jeanette Vizguerra left Mexico City for Colorado, where she became a concierge and defender of the immigration reform”, Wednesday Article in Time Read. “Twenty years later, she was one of the most influential people in the world.”
On Monday, Vizguer will have been arrested by ice on a target where it was used in the Denver region.

Jeanette Vizguerra, which is in the United States illegally and took the sanctuary at the first Baptiste church in Denver, held her son Santiago on May 12, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Vizguer was arrested and held by the immigration authorities this week. (Getty Images)
She was known to stay in the churches to claim the Ice Enforcement shelter, a policy of the administration of the former president Biden who allowed illegal immigrants to stay in churches or schools to avoid an arrest, which The Trump administration revoked January 21, 2025.
In Time’s report on the arrest of Vizguerra, he cited the Time100 List profile 2017 to vizguer written by actress America Ferrera.
“Jeanette has moved to the United States to become a concierge, working as a frank union organizer and building his own business before becoming an immigration reform defender – a daring and risky thing for an undocumented immigrant,” said Ferrera’s tribute to Vizguerra.
“The current administration has scapegoat immigrants, scary the Americans believing that undocumented people like Jeanette are criminals. She came to this country not to violate, assassinate or sell drugs, but to create a better life for her family … It is not a crime. This is the American dream,” continued the 2017 article, referring to the president … Donald Trumpis the first mandate.

Migrants who were expelled from the American stand on the pedestrian border bridge in El Chaparral in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Felix Marquez / AP)
In addition to illegally crossing the United States, Vizguerra was would have been arrested by the police in 2009 And accused of driving without a license, insurance or registration, but these charges were finally rejected.
In 2012, Vizguerra “self-elaborate“In Mexico, before illegally reinstating the United States and was arrested on April 22, 2013 by the American border patrol.
In a post on X Wednesday, Mayor of Denver Mike Johnston Called Vizguer will “a mother of American citizens, a target employee, a non -profit leader and a defender of immigration reform without violent criminal history”. He then castigated the Trump administration, saying: “His detention does not concern security. This is the Putin style persecution of political dissidents.”
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Digital Fox News contacted ICE, the American lawyer’s office for the Colorado district, Laura Lichter, which will represent the vizguerra, as well as Johnston, but did not immediately receive a response.