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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Spanish-language reporter facing deportation gets asylum

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Spanish-language reporter who had been facing deportation since his arrest while covering an immigration protest in Tennessee has been granted asylum in the U.S., his lawyers said Thursday.

In a phone conversation with The Associated Press, Manuel Duran said an immigration court in Memphis granted him asylum, four years after he was arrested while doing his job for a Spanish language news outlet.

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