Journalist Mario Guevara was live-streaming the June 14 anti-ICE protest on Chamblee Tucker Road when he was detained. Photo credit: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon with the Atlanta Civic Circle
The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinement in immigration detention has drawn outcry from free press and immigration advocates.
Immigration officials’ primary objection to releasing Guevara on bond as he awaits the outcome of deportation proceedings, according to court records, is rooted in how he reports on law enforcement…