DENVER (AP) — Supporters of Jeanette Vizguerra, a prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist, have announced that an immigration judge has ruled she can post bond for her release after spending nine months in detention. The ruling, issued on a recent Sunday, allows Vizguerra to post a $5,000 bond according to Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee, who is involved with Vizguerra’s legal matters and her family.

Vizguerra’s family is collaborating with a nonprofit group to post the bond, which may take a day or more for processing. Attempts to obtain comments from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security were met with silence.

Having come to Colorado from Mexico City in 1997, Vizguerra gained prominence during the first Trump administration after she took refuge in several churches to avoid deportation. She was arrested on March 17 in the parking lot of a Target store in the Denver area, where she worked.

Since 2009, Vizguerra has fought against deportation efforts stemming from issues related to a fraudulent Social Security card. In a lawsuit filed in 2019, she claimed she was unaware that the number on the card belonged to someone else. Advocates argue that ICE’s attempt to deport her is based on an invalid order and her legal team is contesting her detention in federal court.

Recently, a federal judge ordered a bond hearing to determine if Vizguerra should remain in detention as her immigration case progresses.}