NewsGuild-CWA Joins Call for Release of Abducted Journalist
Earlier this month, the NewsGuild-CWA joined a coalition of 40 civil-society and press-freedom organizations to condemn the abduction and detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Rodriguez was detained on March 4, 2026. ICE produced no warrant during her arrest; it was produced only after she was in custody. Rodriguez fled to the United States from her native Colombia in 2021 after facing threats for her coverage of armed militia groups. She arrived on a tourist visa and applied for political asylum in the United States. Rodriguez was on a path to citizenship and had a pending green card application through her husband, who is a U.S. citizen, as well as a pending asylum application.
Rodriguez’s detention is part of a broader erosion of democratic norms and human rights in the United States, in which immigration authorities are increasingly being used to chill free expression and First Amendment rights. This practice must stop.
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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.
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