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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 11:30 PM Apr 2017

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

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Mexican journalist held at US border for past two months (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP
"Normally, ICE would have then approved his conditional release and allowed him to enter the United pangaia Apr 2017 #1
Plus the occupant in WH hates the press... Kittycow Apr 2017 #2
An anti-corruption reporter who's a Mexican. Mc Mike Apr 2017 #3
He probably has info that could be useful TexasMommaWithAHat Apr 2017 #4

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. "Normally, ICE would have then approved his conditional release and allowed him to enter the United
Tue Apr 4, 2017, 11:44 PM
Apr 2017

Except he is a reporter and just might talk too much.

Mc Mike

(9,106 posts)
3. An anti-corruption reporter who's a Mexican.
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 07:37 AM
Apr 2017

That earns way more than 3 strikes, from dRumpf admin umps.

TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)
4. He probably has info that could be useful
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 10:09 AM
Apr 2017

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?

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