U.S. Releases Mexican Journalist After A 2nd 7-Month Detention
ICE agents arrested Emilio Gutierrez Soto last December — two months after the National Press Club recognized him with its Press Freedom Award.
The U.S. has freed journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto from a holding facility in El Paso, Texas, hours before a federal judge's deadline for the government to produce documents to explain why it detained the Mexican asylum-seeker for nearly eight months.
It was the second time border officials have detained Gutierrez, who's been living in the U.S. for the past 10 years as he seeks asylum.
In 2008, he brought his son to a border crossing in New Mexico and told officials they were fleeing Mexico because of
