Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran immigrant present in the United States for over 20 years, was arrested on June 14 while covering No Kings Day protests in an immigrant-dense Atlanta neighborhood. Guevara founded MG News, a social media-driven outlet serving a Spanish-speaking audience, and was livestreaming to over a million followers during his arrest. Local prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges, yet Guevara has remained in ICE detention in south Georgia for almost two months. The ACLU filed a federal petition asserting the detention is retaliatory, violates the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment's substantive due process clause, and lacks any legitimate objective. Guevara has a work permit, no criminal history, an administratively closed deportation order, and a U.S. citizen child sponsoring his green card.
Guevara, a Salvadorian immigrant who has been in the United States for more than 20 years, was arrested on 14 June by a police officer in suburban Atlanta while covering the No Kings Day protests in a neighborhood with a high density of immigrants. Despite all charges being dropped, Guevara has been in Ice detention in south Georgia for almost two months, the only journalist in America imprisoned as a consequence of their work today, the ACLU said.
The Government's continuing detention of Mr Guevara on the basis of his journalism is intended to silence him, prevent him from reporting in the future, and retaliate against him for his past speech and reporting, in violation of the First Amendment, the filing in the Brunswick, Georgia, courthouse states. The Government's continuing detention of Mr Guevara also violates the substantive due process clause of the Fifth Amendment because it has no legitimate objective and is punitive.
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