Emilio Gutiérrez Soto fled with his son to the U.S. border in 2008 after his reporting on the Mexican military led to threats. He was working on a Michigan farm when he got the news that his asylum request was finally approved.
Emilio Gutirrez Soto and son Oscar reunite after being released from detention on July 26, 2018. Father and son fled Mexico in 2008 after Gutirrez Soto said his reporting on the Mexican military led to death threats. His asylum request was approved this month., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
In a five-page opinion, the panel said that Gutiérrez Soto’s “subjective fear of persecution upon return to Mexico is objectively reasonable and well-founded.” The panel also wrote that Gutiérrez Soto “came to the attention of the Mexican military because he wrote articles that were critical of and expose the corruption of the military.”
For asylum-seekers, getting a resolution in their asylum cases takes an average of five years — and a majority lose their cases. Gutiérrez Soto’s case landed before Hough, who has a 95.6% denial rate, the highest among El Paso’s six immigration judges,Emilio Gutierrez Soto in a photo taken on Sept. 13, 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Guitierrez Soto was granted eligibility for asylum, 15 years after crossing into the United States seeking refuge.
For more than a decade, the father and son were in legal limbo and couldn’t make long-term plans because they could be deported at any time.Journalists from Canada to Peru offered their support while he fought to stay in the U.S., including the National Press Club and student journalists at the University of Michigan, who helped translate over 100 of Gutiérrez Soto’s news articles into English to use as evidence in his asylum case.
That episode scared Gutiérrez Soto, who in June 2008 fled with his teenage son to a U.S. port of entry in New Mexico, where Gutiérrez Soto asked for asylum. Nine years later, Hough denied their asylum request in July 2017, saying he didn’t believe Gutiérrez Soto was a journalist. Gutiérrez Soto appealed the decision.he received a press freedom award from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where he made some critical comments about the U.S. immigration process.
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