"Spanish-language journalist who documents immigration raids detained for ICE after protest arrest"

This is the headline from an article dated 06/17/25 from the news site Al Arabiya sourcing from the AP. The article notes:

"Mario Guevara, who fled El Salvador two decades ago and built a large following as an independent journalist covering immigration in the Atlanta area, was broadcasting live on social media Saturday at a protest in DeKalb County when officers arrested him.

The video shows Guevara standing on a sidewalk with other journalists filming police in riot gear walking through a parking lot before he stepped into the street as officers approached. “I’m a member of the media,” Guevara tells a police officer right before he’s arrested. The video shows Guevara wearing a bright red shirt under a protective vest with “PRESS” printed across his chest."

Also from the article:

"The video he recorded leading up to his arrest shows him standing beside a shopping center a distance from police vehicles blocking a roadway. Guevara doesn’t appear to be near any crowds or confrontations when police arrested him."

If we read between the lines in the article it might be that ICE-American Gestapo is doing a "favor" for their dictator pal in El Salvador and will move to return him:

"Guevara fled El Salvador with his family in 2004, saying he was beaten and repeatedly harassed because of his work as a political reporter for the newspaper La Prensa Grafica. They immigrated to Georgia, where Guevara worked as a reporter for Georgia’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, Mundo Hispanico, before launching his own online news site, MGNews."

For now this is the latest status and knowing the behavior of ICE-American Gestapo it doesn't look good:

" His attorney, Giovanni Diaz, said a judge granted Guevara bond on Monday, but he was kept in jail after Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an extra 48-hour hold on him. “He’s not a legal permanent resident, but he has authorization to remain and work in the United States,” Diaz said in a phone interview, adding that Guevara has an adult son who is a US citizen and an application pending for his green card."

So they will continue to go after journalists and they knew very well who they were targeting:

" Diaz said Guevara is well-known by local and federal authorities after his years of documenting immigration enforcement. “He’s been doing this type of work for 20-plus years, and now he gets detained,” Diaz said. “It’s concerning. He’s a member of the press. And he doesn’t seem to be committing any crime.”

The article also notes his large social media following and so there is little doubt he would be viewed as a "problem" for ICE-American Gestapo:

"Guevara’s coverage of immigration raids, often documented live with help from a network of tipsters, has earned him a big social media following that exceeds 782,000 on Facebook alone."

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/united-states/2025/06/17/spanishlanguage-journalist-who-documents-immigration-raids-detained-for-ice-after-protest-arrest