Rachel DelGuidice at Fox Information experiences that Time journal is upset that ICE has detained an unlawful immigrant they touted of their “Time100″ most influential folks of 2017. She’s been caught up in “Donald Trump’s politicized deportation crackdown,” as if Time by no means politicized immigration below Trump.
“In 1997, Jeanette Vizguerra left Mexico Metropolis for Colorado, the place she grew to become a janitor and immigration reform advocate,” the Wednesday article in Time learn. “Twenty years later, she was probably the most influential folks on the planet.” Celebrities usually write these tribute articles. Vizguerra was championed by actress America Ferrera, who starred within the TV reveals Ugly Betty and Superstore and the dreadful Barbie film.
In different nations, when democracy is on the road, the general public would not simply watch. They flood the streets. They shut down enterprise as typical. They take nonviolent motion.
Some households have emergency plans for fires, earthquakes or tornadoes. Jeanette Vizguerra’s household had an emergency plan for a dreaded knock on the door. If U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers got here to her house, her kids knew to movie the encounter, alert family and friends and conceal within the bed room. The Vizguerra household lived in terror of being ripped aside by deportation.
Jeanette moved to the U.S. to be a janitor, working as an outspoken union organizer and constructing her personal firm earlier than turning into an advocate for immigration reform—a daring and dangerous factor for an undocumented immigrant. After combating off deportation for eight years, she determined to go public along with her story and sought refuge within the basement of a Denver church.
Group Biden’s administration allowed unlawful immigrants to remain in church buildings or faculties to keep away from arrest, and when Group Trump revoked that on January 21, liberal journalists had a cow over how ICE brokers would be capable to go into public or sacred areas and arrest folks.
Time put Ferrera on its Most Influential record final yr.
Naturally, Ferrera (a giant Kamala backer) took to her Instagram to protest:
Jeanette Vizguerra has impressed me since I had the privilege of profiling her for TIME 100 in 2017. She is a mom who has all the time wished what all moms need: security for her household, herself, and her Colorado neighborhood. Now, she has been detained by ICE with out warning.
For added unintentional comedy, DelGuidice reported that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) is hopping mad at this “controversial” detention. He referred to as it “Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.” Versus the audacity of unlawful immigrants publicly advocating unlawful immigration. Democrats — together with Time journal editors and reporters — love that daring, dangerous “underdog” radicalism.
Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother of Americans, a Goal worker, a nonprofit chief and an immigration reform advocate with no violent felony historical past.
Her detainment shouldn’t be about security. That is Putin-style persecution of political dissidents. pic.twitter.com/K0L1saxPOf
— Mayor Mike Johnston (@denversmayor) March 18, 2025
