Opinion: U.S. immigration authorities are failing this award-winning Mexican journalist
Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, right, is shown during a news conference in El Paso in 2009. By Jason Rezaian Jason Rezaian Global Opinions writer Email Bio Follow Global Opinions writer March 12 at 12:33 PM In 2008, when Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto made the difficult decision to flee his homeland and seek refuge in the United States, he had little idea that he was embarking on an ordeal that would last more than a decade.
He chose the latter, and ever since then he and his son Oscar have been mired in a labyrinthine asylum case. Recently I had a chance to meet Gutiérrez and learned a great deal more about his plight. Instead they were detained in December 2017 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and imprisoned in a detention center in Texas.
“In Mexico we all have a wound that we need to heal," he says. “Everyone has a relative, friend or someone we know who has been assassinated and whose death will never be investigated. For me, it’s the deaths of my colleagues that hurt me profoundly. I think about their families. I think about what would have happened to my son if I weren’t here. They’re killing the messengers in Mexico.”
Gutiérrez received it in December 2017. Like so many of those before him, he was unable to accept the award in person because he was in prison. The major difference among all these cases is that Gutiérrez is the only one being persecuted by the American government.
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