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More than 60,000 sign National Press Club's 'Free Emilio' petition
As National Press Club Press Freedom award-winner Emilio Gutierrez and his son, Oscar, marked one month in detention at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the number of signatures on a change.org petition calling for his release more than doubled over the weekend to nearly 65,000. The latest uptick comes after National Press Club Executive Director Bill McCarren joined Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, and other press advocates last week on a Texas public radio broadcast about the plight of the Mexican journalist, who has been trying for nearly a decade to win asylum for…
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National Press Club effort to free Mexican journalist reaches 'crucial phase'
The National Press Club's effort to prevent the deportation of Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez has reached a “crucial phase,” Club executive director William McCarren said Thursday, as U.S. immigration officials reconsider his petition for asylum. Gutierrez and his son Oscar have been confined at an El Paso, Texas, detention facility since Dec. 7 after an attempt by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport them was halted by the Bureau of Immigration Appeals. The bureau last week agreed to review Gutierrez’s case. “We are now entering a crucial phase of Emilio’s case where we are…
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Bureau of Immigration Appeals agrees to reconsider asylum request of jailed Mexican journalist
The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to reconsider National Press Club Press Freedom award-winner Emilio Gutierrez’s asylum petition following a campaign by Club members and allied professional journalism organizations to prevent the Mexican reporter from being deported to his home country, where he is under a death threat. The Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute received word of the BIA decision this week; nonetheless, Gutierrez and his son, Oscar, remain in an El Paso immigration detention facility. They have been confined since Dec. 7, when Immigration and Customs…
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National Press Club renews its call: #FreeEmilio; petition garners 21,000 signatures
Following the brutal Dec. 19 assassination of another Mexican reporter, Gumaro Pérez Aguilando, the National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute are renewing their call for U.S. authorities to grant asylum and freedom to this year's NPC Press Freedom award-winner, Emilio Gutierrez Soto. On Dec. 22, National Press Club General Manager Bill McCarren traveled to El Paso to deliver a petition with nearly 17,000 signatures in support of the journalist's case. In a Tweet following his El Paso visit, McCarren said that the number of signatures had increased to more than 21,000. Dozens…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute to Board of Immigration Appeals: Free Emilio
The National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute are asking the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals to grant asylum to NPC Press Freedom award-winner Emilio Gutierrez, a Mexican journalist now imprisoned in El Paso. “We are stepping out of our normal role as observers to advocate in this case because we believe the precedent that could be set is so ominous, not only for the safety of our colleagues but for the future of free speech,” wrote NPC President Jeff Ballou and Journalism Institute president Barbara Cochran in a letter to the Board of Appeals. An arm of the Justice…
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Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez speaks to Club from detention center
Speaking by phone from a detention center in Texas, Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez, who won the National Press Club’s International Press Freedom award in October, told a Club press conference Monday he would be killed if he is deported to Mexico. Gutierrez, who has been a refugee in the United States since 2008, said he fled his native country after a Mexican general and colonel threatened his life because of his reports on the corruption of the Mexican military. His reports said Mexican troops were robbing citizens. His house was ransacked, and he learned he would be killed if he…
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National Press Club Press Freedom Award Winner Narrowly Avoids Deportation; Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez now in detention in El Paso
UPDATE: After an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals preempted ICE's attempt to deport Gutierrez, his lawyer was not permitted to see him. Attorney Eduardo Beckett says ICE officials informed him late Thursday that Gutierrez was being transferred to a facility in Sierra Blanca, Texas. This is 90 miles away from his lawyer's El Paso office. "I believe it's retaliation," Beckett told the National Press Club. "I believe they are trying to break him." National Press Club Press Freedom award winner Emilio Gutierrez was within minutes of being returned to Mexico, a country he fled nearly a…
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Press Freedom Advocates Seek Asylum for Mexican Journalist
For the second time this year, U.S. immigration policy is putting a Mexican journalist’s life at risk. Unless the Board of Immigration Appeals overturns a July 19 decision by El Paso Immigration Judge Robert Hough, Emilio Gutierrez Soto will be deported to Mexico, a country he fled nearly a decade ago after his reporting on corruption in the military made him a target. For Gutierrez, a 2017 winner of the National Press Club’s prestigious John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, an unfavorable decision could be tantamount to a death sentence. The dangers for reporters operating in Mexico have been…
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Journalism advocates deplore attempt to deport Press Freedom Award winner
The National Press Club, its Journalism Institute and other advocates for press freedom and immigration justice urge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend efforts to deport Emilio Gutierrez, a winner of the Club’s Press Freedom Award. Late on Friday, an immigration judge in El Paso, Texas, refused to stay the deportation of Gutierrez from the United States — where he and his son fled after his investigative reporting led to threats against himself and his family. Gutierrez requested asylum in the United States; it took eight years for him to get a hearing, which took place last…
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Institute teams with Press Foundation to brain storm on defending First Amendment
The National Press Club's Journalism Institute is partnering with the National Press Foundation to host a brainstorming session for the working press on April 19 from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in the Club's Murrow Room. Register here to participate. Why? Journalists have a problem. Journalism does not thrive in the spotlight. Reporters don’t generally like to call attention to themselves on the job: It gets in the way of the stories and cultivating sources, and a penchant for journalistic objectivity and dispassion makes it almost impossible to advocate for themselves. So how does the news…
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