DENVER – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated Jeanette Vizguerra’s First Amendment rights by detaining – and planning to deport – the Colorado immigration advocate, her attorneys argued in federal court in Denver on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Nina Wang held a short hearing on the high-profile immigration case, but did not rule on Vizguerra’s request to be freed. Vizguerra, 53, remained in detention at the Aurora ICE facility and did not attend the hearing at the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse.
The judge granted the request by Vizguerra’s lawyers to amend their emergency petition for a writ of habeas corpus – a request to determine the validity of a person’s detention –with the new claim that ICE infringed on the advocate’s freedom of speech…