Nashville immigration reporter Estefany Rodríguez released from ICE custody | CNN Business

A Nashville-based Colombian reporter was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on bond Thursday after her arrest earlier this month. Estefany Rodríguez, a Spanish-language reporter for Nashville Noticias who often covers immigration, was released from a Louisiana detention facility after posting a $10,000 bond. Her release comes just over two weeks after she was detained by ICE agents in Nashville. “Today we celebrate that Estefany has been released from the ICE detention center in Louisiana and is on her way home to be with her family,” Mike Holley, a Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights attorney representing Estefany, said in a statement. Rodríguez’s attorneys are seeking an order barring ICE from “mistreating her in a similar way in the future,” Holley said. (Rodríguez has two cases, one over her detention and one over her immigration status.) A petition filed by her lawyers said Rodríguez has reported stories that are often “critical of the practices” by ICE and was reporting on immigration arrests the day prior to her detention. Rodríguez fled Colombia in 2021 after receiving death threats related to her work as a journalist. She entere