Spanish-language reporter Mario Guevara remained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on 9 July, more than a week after an immigration judge authorized his release on a $7,500 bond that his family has been unable to pay because ICE will not accept the money, according to his attorney, Giovanni Diaz. Police in suburban Atlanta arrested the 47-year-old Salvadoran national on 14 June while he was livestreaming a “No Kings” protest. An immigration judge, James Ward, found no public-safety risk and granted bond on 1 July, but ICE has asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to halt the order and has moved Guevara through at least four facilities, including the Folkston Processing Center and jails in Gwinnett and Floyd counties. Guevara, who has worked in U.S. media for two decades and has a pending green-card application sponsored by his U.S.-citizen son, published an open letter appealing to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for diplomatic intervention. Press-freedom group CPJ called his continued detention “consternating” and urged ICE to honor the judge’s ruling.
A week after an immigration judge granted him bond, a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody. https://t.co/RHMxRjAap2
Periodista salvadoreño permanece bajo custodia de ICE a pesar de que se le concedió la fianza Mario Guevara transmitía en redes sociales una manifestación en el condado de DeKalb contra la administración de Trump cuando la policía local lo arrestó. https://t.co/NbNstknnqx
Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested while covering a protest last month outside Atlanta, remains in ICE custody a week after an immigration judge granted him bond. https://t.co/ucjacOhLzt