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Offline theking

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Well, she's not White after all
« on: March 20, 2026, 11:46:08 PM »
...so that gives Trump's ICE more fuel to add to their hate fire...Therefo re, NOT surprised...

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Nashville reporter detained by ICE has been released: Lawyers
The lawyers for a Colombian journalist reporting in Nashville who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers earlier this month said she was released on Thursday.

Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was arrested on March 4 during a traffic stop and held in the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. She was released on $10,000 bond.

“We are grateful that Estefany is able to walk away with her freedom to be with her family as she continues to fight for her right to remain in her community and in the U.S.,” Mike Holley, one of her defense attorneys, said in a statement.

ICE accused Rodríguez of violating her visa conditions. However, Holley cited court records showing that she entered the U.S. lawfully and has applied for political asylum and legal status through her husband. Rodríguez has a valid work permit with no criminal history.

Holley, an attorney with the nonpartisan organization Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights, argued in a wrongful detention court challenge that his client was targeted for her reporting that has been critical of ICE’s tactics. He accused the Trump administration of violating her First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.

“Now that she has been released from ICE detention we will be able to update Federal Judge Eli Richardson on her status as we continue with her habeas case,” he said in the statement.

“We plan to proceed with the habeas petition that was filed on March 4th, challenging both her warrantless arrest and retaliation for her exercise of First Amendment rights,” Holley added. “Through that petition, we are seeking not only her complete release, but an order prohibiting ICE from mistreating her in a similar way in the future.”

The Hill has reached out to ICE for comment. The agency told Reuters that Rodríguez will receive due process.

Lawyers representing the federal government argued that there was a warrant for her arrest, producing one dated two days before her arrest and one dated March 4.

Rodríguez’s arrest drew condemnation from press freedom organizations that called for her release. The Committee to Protect Journalists and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press praised her release but warned of the implications of her arrest.

They and other organizations stated that the “arrest and detention of non-citizen journalists like Rodríguez threaten to chill news reporting in the public interest, especially stories about immigration that they are often uniquely equipped to tell.”



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Re: Well, she's not White after all
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2026, 01:29:00 AM »
Trump administration don't care about her status and they tend to strip her away like they did on the Latino guy that they had send him to the prison in El Salvador.



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