ICE Trying To Deport Journalist For Reporting On Abusive ICE Behavior

ICE Trying To Deport Journalist For Reporting On Abusive ICE Behavior

6 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180524/16432539900/ice-trying-to-deport-journalist-reporting-abusive-ice-behavior.shtml

For many years (looong before this current administration), we've documented the problems with ICE, a government agency that has long been totally out of control, abusing its power and authority not just in dealing with immigration, but in literally seizing blogs, because Hollywood told them to do so. The organization has done nothing to improve its reputation over the years, and lately almost seems to relish in the free reign it has to act like complete thugs in uniform.

The latest story -- as with seizing blogs -- appears to have some serious First Amendment concerns, though there's no indication that ICE cares at all about that. In this story, ICE detained a journalist and is trying to have him deported because of that reporter's coverage of ICE activities. Freedom of the Press has the details, but the short version is that Manuel Duran, who fled El Salvador a decade ago over death threats there, has been living in the US and reporting for a few different Spanish language news organizations.