A Spanish language journalist who was in prevention of immigration Georgia Since June was deported on Friday El Salvador,
48 -year -old Mario Guevara, was covering a protest outside Atlanta On June 14, when the local police arrested him and then he was converted to American immigration and customs enforcement several days later. His lawyers were fighting a parallel battle in the immigration court and the Federal Court system, trying to release him.
Posted in a live video Facebook On Friday afternoon, Guevara is seen, escorted by Al Salvador government officials, gets out of a vehicle and hugs a woman who pointed a camera phone on her. “Hello, mother,” he said.
He looked at the sky and said, “My country, my country, my country. Thank God. It is not how I wanted to come to my country, but thank God.”
Guevara’s exile came on Wednesday after the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to hold a hold on the exile order issued last month by the Board of Immigration Appeal.
All the criminal allegations filed against Guevara were dismissed after being arrested by local prosecutors. His lawyers argued that he was being placed as a journalist for his work and to silence him in violation of his constitutional rights.
Guevara fled from Al Salvador out of fear two decades ago, and he collected a big audience as a journalist in the Atlanta region. He worked for a Spanish-language newspaper Mundo Hispano for a Spanish language newspaper before starting a digital news outlet called MG News a year ago. He was opposing President Donald Trump’s administration from a “No Kings” rally on social media when he was arrested by the local police in Decalb County.
He is known to reach the scene where snow or other law enforcement agencies are active, often after receiving tips from community members. He regularly uses what he is watching on social media.
In the video of his arrest, Guevara is shown wearing a bright red shirt under a protective vest, in which the “press” is published in his chest. He can be heard from a police officer saying, “I am a member of the media, officer.” He stood on a pavement with other journalists, with no sign of a large crowd or a conflict around it, before he was taken away.
Allegations against him in Decalab County, as well as other allegations that were filed in neighboring Ginnet County after his arrest, was dismissed by prosecutors. In July, an immigration judge gave him a bond, but he was in custody, while the government appealed for that decision.
In 2012, an immigration case refused to stay in the US bid, he appealed that the Immigration Appeal ruled to the board, which listens to the appeal of the decisions of the immigration court, but the appeal was not decided when the prosecutors agreed to close the case administratively. His lawyers say that he has been authorized to live and work in the US for the last 13 years.
Shortly after Guevara entered the snow custody in June, the government asked the Immacling Appeal Board to reopen the old immigration case. His lawyers did not oppose that step, but asked that the matter should be sent back to the lower immigration court as he now has a pending application for a visa supported by his adult American citizen son.
The Board of Immigration Appeal agreed to reopen the case last month, dismissed Guevara’s appeal and refused his request to return the case to the Lower Immigration Court. It also ordered him to deport Al Salvador and dismissed the government’s judgment’s appeal, saying that it is now a moot.
The lawyers of Guevara appealed in the 11th circuit and said that the court asked to stop the exile order while pending the appeal. The lawyers of Guevara argue that the Board of Immigration appeals and refusal by the 11th circuit to refuse on his exile is based on incorrect information.
A separate case challenged the constitutionality of Guevra’s custody in immigration custody and is pending in a federal court. His lawyers argued that he was being punished for his journalism work and asked a judge to immediately release and order that the matter should not be deported while pending.