Jeanette Vizguerra, now living a life of sanctuary in a church basement to avoid deportation, barely slept three hours overnight Wednesday.

Because of the international attention on Vizguerra’s stance, she fielded telephone calls Thursday from places as far away as Europe and South America. Certainly it has increased her visibility. Will her high profile jeopardize the sanctuary she claims?

Seeking sanctuary in a church, a tradition dating to the middle ages, has been accepted in America for generations, with government officials, in most instances, honoring the practice.

President Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall between Mexico and the United States and recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and roundups around the country have people in sanctuary, and communities who support them, nervously questioning whether the practice will be honored under the new White House administration.

“We really have no idea what to expect from ICE this time around,” said the Rev. Mike Moran of the First Unitarian Society of Denver.

Moran’s church is Vizguerra’s sanctuary. The same church also gave sanctuary to Arturo Hernandez Garcia in 2014.

“There is no law that protects churches,” said Julie Gonzales, firm manager for the Meyer Law Office, which is handling Vizguerra’s case.

However, ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection follow guidelines for “sensitive locations,” such as churches and other religious facilities, that call for generally avoiding enforcement actions.

Agents must have prior approval from a supervisor or believe there are “exigent circumstances related to national security, terrorism, public safety (or) imminent risk of destruction of evidence material to an ongoing criminal case,” according to ICE.

Moran said he’s concerned about security at the church. Since news that Vizguerra was staying there became public, he has received numerous phone calls condemning him and the church.

“I’ve been called Satan three times today,” he said. Others have said he belongs in jail.

Someone from Arizona posted a note on the church’s Facebook page saying that “concerned citizens,” could come to the church, break down the doors, and deliver Vizguerra to authorities, he added. “If they had been local, we probably would have taken it more seriously.”

On Thursday, church officials and supporters of Vizguerra kept the front doors to the church locked and carefully monitored people, mostly media members, as they came and went.

During services on Sunday, people will be posted in the neighborhood and near the church to keep an eye on things, Moran said.

Gonzales said Vizguerra, a mother of four, including three children who are U.S. citizens, applied for a visa available to victims of crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to officials investigating or prosecuting criminal activity.

On Thursday, inside the church, Vizguerra said she was the victim of a crime in 2012. She also said officials with the city of Denver have signed documents that support the claim.

“ICE is more than willing to break every other longstanding tradition such as respecting the rights of victims of violent crime,” Gonzales said.

Vizguerra entered the country illegally from Mexico in 1997 and has two misdemeanor convictions in the United States. She secured documents with a phony Social Security number with intent to use the papers to get a job, but was caught before she could use them. In 2013 — two years after a federal immigration judge issued final orders of deportation — she was caught entering the country illegally after going to Mexico for her mother’s funeral.

Based on these factors, Vizguerra is an ICE enforcement “priority,” according to ICE officials. Her request for a stay of removal was denied Wednesday by ICE’s Denver field office.

In all, ICE has granted Vizguerra six stays of removal since her original final orders of removal were issued on Nov. 18, 2011. A stay of removal temporarily halts the deportation process and typically is issued to allow people time to prepare to leave the country.

Garcia, the person who preceded Vizguerra in finding sanctuary at First Unitarian, left the church in July 2015, after receiving a letter from immigration officials telling him he was no longer a deportation priority. He now resides in Denver with his family.

On Thursday, Vizguerra said she envisions a day when she’ll walk down the street “free and without fear.”