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Immigration Judge Hears Jeanette Vizguerra’s Bond Bid After Nine Months in ICE Detention

The immigration judge will issue a written decision on whether she can be released on bond.

A woman who did not want her face shown or to be identified protests after activist Jeanette Vizguerra was detained by ICE and taken to the GEO Aurora ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colorado, on March 18, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
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Overview

  • An immigration judge took the case under advisement Friday and said a written decision on release would follow as soon as possible.
  • The hearing was compelled by U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang, who ordered that the government must prove by clear and convincing evidence that continued detention is necessary.
  • Vizguerra has been held since March 17, a roughly nine-month detention that surpasses the court’s presumptively reasonable six-month benchmark.
  • A separate First Amendment claim alleging ICE targeted her for her advocacy remains under advisement in federal court.
  • Her attorneys are also seeking Military Parole in Place based on her daughter’s enlistment in the U.S. Air Force, while ICE cites a final removal order, a 1997 illegal entry and a 2009 forged-document conviction.