CNN has heaped praise on a criminal illegal alien who was arrested for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Colorado.
ICE agents arrested Mexican national Jeanette Vizguerra after she spent years hiding from authorities in the Denver area to escape a deportation order.
Vizguerra was convicted on a Social Security fraud charge in the U.S. and is known to have entered the country illegally by crossing the Southern Border at least twice.
She pled guilty to a charge related to using a made-up Social Security number and then hid out in a church for three years during President Donald Trump’s first term.
According to USA Today, Vizguerra was taken into custody on Monday while she was working at a Target store.
However, CNN is framing Vizguerra as a”pillar of the community.”
CNN reporter Gloria Pazmino claims that Vizguerra became a “symbol of resistance” to Trump’s efforts to deport illegal aliens when she hid in a church in 2017.
During “CNN News Central,” Pazmino told co-host Sara Sidner:
“She sort of became a symbol of resistance, if you will, especially in immigrant communities during the first Trump Administration, when she took refuge inside that church in order to