Rachel DelGuidice at Fox News reports that Time magazine is upset that ICE has detained an illegal immigrant they touted in their "Time100" most influential people of 2017. She's been caught up in "Donald Trump’s politicized deportation crackdown," as if Time never politicized immigration under Trump.
"In 1997, Jeanette Vizguerra left Mexico City for Colorado, where she became a janitor and immigration reform advocate," the Wednesday article in Time read. "Twenty years later, she was one of the most influential people in the world." Celebrities often write these tribute articles. Vizguerra was championed by actress America Ferrera, who starred in the TV shows Ugly Betty and Superstore and the dreadful Barbie movie.
In other countries, when democracy is on the line, the public doesn't just watch. They flood the streets. They shut down business as usual. They take nonviolent action.
Some families have emergency plans for fires, earthquakes or tornadoes. Jeanette Vizguerra's family had an emergency plan for a dreaded knock at the door. If U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came to her home, her children knew to film the encounter, alert friends and family and hide in the bedroom. The Vizguerra family lived in terror of being ripped apart by deportation.
Jeanette moved to the U.S. to be a janitor, working as an outspoken union organizer and building her own company before becoming an advocate for immigration reform—a bold and risky thing for an undocumented immigrant. After fighting off deportation for eight years, she decided to go public with her story and sought refuge in the basement of a Denver church.
Team Biden’s administration allowed illegal immigrants to stay in churches or schools to avoid arrest, and when Team Trump revoked that on January 21, liberal journalists had a cow over how ICE agents would be able to go into public or sacred spaces and arrest people.
Time put Ferrera on its Most Influential list last year.
Naturally, Ferrera (a big Kamala backer) took to her Instagram to protest:
Jeanette Vizguerra has inspired me since I had the privilege of profiling her for TIME 100 in 2017. She is a mother who has always wanted what all mothers want: safety for her family, herself, and her Colorado community. Now, she has been detained by ICE without warning.
For added unintentional comedy, DelGuidice reported that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) is hopping mad at this "controversial" detention. He called it "Putin-style persecution of political dissidents." As opposed to the audacity of illegal immigrants publicly advocating illegal immigration. Democrats -- including Time magazine editors and reporters -- love that bold, risky "underdog" radicalism.
Jeanette Vizguerra is a mom of American citizens, a Target employee, a nonprofit leader and an immigration reform advocate with no violent criminal history.
— Mayor Mike Johnston (@denversmayor) March 18, 2025
Her detainment is not about safety. This is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents. pic.twitter.com/K0L1saxPOf
