Mexican journalist held at US border for past two months
Source: Reporters Without Borders
April 4, 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the US authorities to admit Mexican journalist Martin Méndez Pineda into the United States. The target of death threats in the southwestern state of Guerrero, Méndez has been awaiting a response to his political asylum request since 5 February.
RSF is extremely concerned about the plight of Martin Méndez Pineda, a former reporter for the Guerrero-based Novedades Acapulco newspaper who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a detention center in El Paso, Texas, for the past 60 days.
Méndez requested political asylum at the US border on 5 February in order to escape repeated death threats in Guerrero. On 1 March, he passed the credible fear interview which the US authorities use to decide whether there are prima facie grounds for accepting that a real threat exists.
Normally, ICE would have then approved his conditional release and allowed him to enter the United States officially.
Read more: https://rsf.org/en/news/mexican-journalist-held-us-border-past-two-months
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Except he is a reporter and just might talk too much.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)well some of it anyway.
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)That earns way more than 3 strikes, from dRumpf admin umps.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Names of sources, etc., that one might not normally reveal, so I would imagine that authorities will expect him to share what he knows first.
I think they do want him to talk, but will he?