An illegal immigrant who garnered media fame during President Trump’s first term by taking up sanctuary inside the basement of a Denver church has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jeanette Vizguerra was detained by officials outside Target, where she was working just outside of Denver.

Jordan Garcia, an immigrant-rights advocate, claims the illegal alien was told by one ICE agent, “We finally got you.”

A timeline put together by the New York Times shows that Vizguerra illegally entered the United States in 1997 and didn’t pop up on law enforcement radar until 2009 when a traffic stop yielded evidence that she had used a fake Social Security card.

She pleaded guilty to “attempted possession of a forged instrument” and spent roughly three weeks in jail. In 2013, she left the country to visit her ailing mother and tried to come across the border in Texas yet again. She was convicted of illegal entry and sentenced to a year of supervised probation.

NEW: ICE confirms to @FoxNews that they arrested Jeanette Vizguerra, a convicted criminal Mexican illegal alien & immigration activist, in Aurora, CO yesterday. ICE confirms she has a final order of removal (deportation order) via a DOJ immigration judge, and has repeatedly had… pic.twitter.com/MwVuUEEGqe

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 18, 2025

Vizguerra has had multiple stays of deportation over the years, but it appears that under President Trump’s second term, her time is finally up. That wasn’t the case during Trump’s first term when she was able to hide in the basement of First Unitarian Church in Denver after her sixth stay was denied.

She packed up her kids and headed to the church, claiming to local media that she had been a hard-working person who paid her taxes for years, “a big difference from President Trump.”

It is unclear how she was able to pay taxes with a fake Social Security card without a valid Social Security number attached to it.