An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database shows that Mario Guevara, the influential Spanish-language journalist who livestreamed his own arrest at a weekend protest outside Atlanta, is now in the agency’s custody.
The immigrant from El Salvador, who built a mass following on social media through his work documenting ICE raids, will now have to fight in immigration court for his right to remain in the country and ward off deportation.
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Local police charged Guevara with three misdemeanors for his behavior at the pro-immigrants’ rights protest: obstruction of law enforcement, unlawful assembly and pedestrian walking on or along a roadway.
In arrest warrants obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Doraville police said the journalist ignored repeated instructions to stay off the street and to leave the site of the protest after it had been declared an unlawful assembly.
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Diaz said that although Guevara has work authorization and a path to a green card through his U.S. citizen son, he still lacks permanent legal status in the country.
In 2012, a court denied Guevara’s application for asylum and ordered him deported, but the journalist went on to benefit from administrative closure, a legal procedure that allows an immigration judge to temporarily suspend removal proceedings.
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