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.
Gutiérrez Soto had missed phone calls from his lawyer. So Lynette Clemetson, director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a close friend, drove to the farm where Gutiérrez Soto works to deliver the news in person.It took a few seconds for him to realize what he was hearing.
“What can you do when you’re in love?” Gutiérrez Soto said in a phone interview. “You simply can’t stand in the way of life.” 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.
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