Mario Guevara, an award-winning journalist who began documenting ICE raids, has been detained since his arrest at a June 14 protest in DeKalb County, Georgia. Guevara is authorized to live and work in the United States and immigrated from El Salvador more than 20 years ago to escape persecution for his journalism. He worked for Mundo Hispánico and in 2024 founded a news organization that filmed ICE abductions. Guevara alleges retaliation by ICE officers for recording arrests. His legal team, including the ACLU and ACLU of Georgia, filed a habeas petition to allow him to pay a $7,500 bond. Federal prosecutors appealed and obtained a stay, and a judge requested briefs without ruling.
Guevara has spent almost all of his detention in ICE custody, although he is authorized to live and work in the United States. He immigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago from El Salvador to escape persecution for his journalism. Guevara settled in Georgia and continued to work as a journalist, first for Mundo Hispánico, and then, in 2024, he founded his own news organization, , which had recently begun filming ICE abductions.
On August 20, Guevara's legal team, which includes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia, filed a habeas corpus petition requesting that the court allow Guevara to pay the $7,500 bond set by an immigration judge on July 1. Federal prosecutors had appealed the bond order to the Board of Immigration Appeals and were granted a stay, or pause, of the order, thereby preventing Guevara's release.
In a phone interview from an ICE jail in South Georgia, Guevero told The Altanta-Journal Constitution that the agency is retaliating against him because, "I was following them. I was showing their faces when they were arresting immigrants." Some officers have said to him, "You gave me a hard time, Mario. Hey, remember me?"
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