An Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter who has covered Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids up close could now himself be deported, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Mario Guevara, an immigrant from El Salvador, was initially arrested at an anti-deportation protest in DeKalb County.
"Online police records show Guevara was arrested by the Doraville Police Department and charged with obstruction of law enforcement, unlawful assembly, and pedestrian walking on or along a roadway," said the report. "On Monday, Guevara’s attorneys successfully petitioned DeKalb County Magistrate Court for a bond, then learned of the ICE detainer which prevents him from being released."
According to attorney Giovanni Diaz, Guevara has work authorization and a pending green card application through his U.S. citizen son, but none of this is a deterrent to his deportation.
“You can imagine with this administration, they always reserve the right to put an ICE hold on anybody that is technically not a legal permanent resident, regardless of whether or not they have work authorization,” Diaz told the news outlet.
This is the latest in an escalating Trump administration policy of mass deportations, which has ignited a firestorm as a number of people were summarily removed without due process, or pushed into agreeing to be sent to impoverished, war-torn countries they aren't even from.
In response to the protests around the country against these raids, President Donald Trump has vowed to escalate ICE crackdowns specifically in large, Democratic-voting cities like New York and Los Angeles.
