US judge blocks Trump administration from deporting immigration activist

Joseph Ax - Reuters - 21/03
A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting an immigration activist whose detention in Colorado this week outraged state Democrats and immigration rights advocates.
March 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting an immigration activist whose detention in Colorado this week outraged state Democrats and immigration rights advocates.
Jeanette Vizguerra, 53, a Mexican national who made headlines during President Donald Trump's first term by moving into a church to avoid deportation, cannot be moved out of Colorado without further court action, U.S. District Judge Nina Wang ruled.

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The judge has scheduled a hearing on March 28.
Vizguerra was arrested in Denver on Monday, according to a post on X from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She has filed petitions in both federal district court and a U.S. appeals court challenging her detention order as invalid.
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