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Spanish-language reporter facing deportation gets asylum

FILE -In this April 3, 2018, file photo, Memphis police arrest Spanish-language reporter Manuel Duran during an immigration protest in Memphis, Tenn. Duran, 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, March 24, 2022. (Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal via AP, File)

FILE - Spanish-language reporter Manuel Duran listens to a question during a news conference on July 17, 2019 in Memphis, Tenn., discussing the 15 months he spent at U.S. immigration detention facilities. Duran, 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, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz, File)

Spanish-language reporter facing deportation gets asylum