Denver Mayor Mike Johnston decried Vizguerra’s detention as an abuse of power and “Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.”

Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra is being held at the Aurora, Colo., Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility after her arrest by ICE agents on Monday afternoon.

Colorado immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra, who sought sanctuary at a Denver church to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration, was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Aurora without warning on Monday night,