Human rights, press freedom advocates blast journalist's impending deportation
A Georgia-based journalist faces imminent deportation months after his arrest while livestreaming a protest, in what human rights and press freedom advocates say sends a “chilling message” for journalists.
Mario Guevara, a 48-year-old Salvadoran national, ran MG News, a Spanish language news outlet in metropolitan Atlanta. When Guevara livestreamed a June “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump, local police arrested him. He has been held in detention for more than three months.
ICE didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but has previously said Guevara is in the country illegally and thus subject to removal.
An immigration board recently issued a final removal order, based on failing to pay an immigration bond 13 years ago. His lawyers deny the allegation, calling the board’s decision “erroneous” in a letter to a federal judge in Georgia and providing proof of payment and the bond's subsequent cancellation.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement) refuses to release me because I represent a headache for them; a rock in their shoe as I exposed the injustices that federal agents committed on the state's streets against members of our vulnerable Latino community," he said in a message in Spanish. "My dedication to my work cost me my freedom."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/25/georgia-journalist-mario-guevara-deportation-livestream/86342680007/?tbref=hp
Of course ICE would lie about it.....