Hispanic reporter arrested at protest now in ICE custody, faces deportation
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database shows that Mario Guevara, the influential Spanish-language journalist who livestreamed his own arrest at a weekend protest outside Atlanta, is now in the agency’s custody.
The immigrant from El Salvador, who built a mass following on social media through his work documenting ICE raids, will now have to fight in immigration court for his right to remain in the country and ward off deportation.
It is not clear where Guevara is being held. Online records show that Guevara was released from the DeKalb County Jail, where he was detained following his arrest at the protest, at 7:35 a.m. Wednesday.
A local judge had granted Guevara a bond Monday, but the journalist remained in detention because ICE had issued a detainer, formally requesting the DeKalb jail to hold Guevara for at least 48 more hours to give immigration agents time to pick him up.
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