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A Mexican journalist is living in Las Cruces and seeking asylum in the United States, but he isn\u2019t fleeing from the drug cartels \u2013 he\u2019s fleeing from Mexican soldiers.<\/p>\n
From the Albuquerque Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cMexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto says he has no backup plan if his request for political asylum in the U.S. is rejected when he goes before an immigration judge in El Paso in late January.<\/p>\n \u201cHis El Paso lawyer, Carlos Spector, says one thing is clear: No place in Mexico is safe for Gutierrez Soto since he was threatened by Mexican soldiers in two harrowing encounters in 2005 and again in 2008 for several articles he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018He\u2019d be a dead man within a couple of months,\u2019 Spector said, \u2018and they\u2019d probably make it look like an accident.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gutierrez Soto is a former reporter for El Diario de Ju\u00e1rez<\/a> who fled with his son from Ascension to the Antelope Wells port of entry in 2008. After being detained for months, both were released in the United States pending their request for asylum.<\/p>\n