Nashville journalist’s release from ICE detention delayed, slowing action in federal lawsuit

A Nashville Spanish-language news journalist will spend another night in immigration detention after technical difficulties with the government’s electronic bail-posting system prevented her husband from securing her release, her attorney told a federal judge Wednesday.

Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist with Nashville Noticias who reported on local immigration raids in recent months, has spent two weeks in federal custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Rodríguez early March 4 after she and her husband dropped …