TitleSeptember 19, 2023
Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto has been granted asylum in the United States after fighting for 15 years to obtain such protection. Gutiérrez and his son left Mexico in 2008 after receiving death threats for reporting alleged cases of corruption in the Mexican armed forces in the northern state of Chihuahua.
The father and son were detained for seven months and eventually released and given permission to stay in the United States while their asylum requests were resolved. In 2017, Democracy Now! He spoke with Gutiérrez Soto by telephone while he was jailed at an immigration detention center in the city of El Paso, Texas, awaiting possible deportation.
Emilio Gutierrez Soto: “Our deportation clearly means death. Because? Because of the service from ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), which relies on the United States Department of Homeland Security, by law, must submit reports to Mexican immigration authorities and consulates. And the parties consulted and the Mexican immigration authorities do not enjoy any credibility, any confidentiality. On the contrary, many of its officers, many consular officers or immigration officers, collude with organized crime.”
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