“I do have hope.” Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra locked in Aurora ICE facility for more than six months

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In the six months since beloved immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez was detained outside a Target, her family, friends and fellow reformers have protested weekly outside the ICE detention center in Aurora. Her attorneys want U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang to schedule a bond hearing, which could lead to Vizguerra walking out of the detention center. After months in detention, Vizguerra is suffering mentally, physically and financially, her attorneys wrote in a May 29 motion requesting her immediate release. She also helped start three advocacy organizations, Metro Denver Sanctuary Coalition, Sanctuary for All and Abolish ICE Denver. Defendants in the case are the warden of the ICE detention center in Aurora, ICE Denver field office interim director Ernesto Santacruz, U.S.