How Trump finally nailed an illegal immigrant activist touted by Time magazine who used a church to evade ICE for years

The Trump administration finally nabbed an immigration activist who ran from federal agents for years and hid in churches where she was shielded from arrest.Jeanette Vizguerra, a 53-year-old Mexican mom of four, was once named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People for hiding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a Colorado church.After years of chasing her down, ICE finally got their hands on Vizguerra Monday when she was in the parking lot of the Target store in Denver where she worked, according to Jordan Garcia, another immigrant-rights activist, told the New York Times.Former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore spent 15 years trying to collar the Vizguerra, whom he calls a “horrible and smug” criminal, who led the “abolish ICE movement” in Colorado.“We’ve known about her for years and she’s gone through the whole immigration process,” Fabbricatore told The Post.“This woman should’ve been removed in 2009,” he added.She is now awaiting deportation in an ICE detention center in Aurora.Vizguerra crossed the Texas border illegally in 1997, an ICE spokesperson told The Post.She first found herself the target of ICE in 2009 during the Obama administration, when she was pulled over in Denver and found to have a fake Social Security card with her own name and birth date but someone else’s number on it.At the time, the Mexican national claimed she didn’t know the number was someone else’s.Two months later, Vizguerra was caught driving without a license and insurance, ICE said.An immigration judge gave Vizguerra the opportunity to leave the US on her own terms, which she failed to do.The next year, she left for Mexico while she was appealing her removal and then crossed again into the US illegally and was subsequently convicted of illegal entry, a felony which resulted in a year of probation, ICE said.

She again received a deportation order in 2013.But the Obama administration paused the order, allowing her to stay.But ...