Guevara got a bond, but he can’t yet leave the Dekalb county jail because he has a migratory retention (‘Immigration Hold’) of ICEwhich implies that the agency has 48 hours to pick it up and His permanence in the country is uncertainsaid his collaborator Alondra Madrigal.
“Mario could grab a bond, a bond to leave, but since he has a migration retention, obviously You can’t get out of jailbut hopefully it can leave, ”Madrigal said in a Facebook transmission with the law firm Diaz & Gaeta, which represents the communicator.
Guevara, with more than 780 thousand followers on Facebook and founder of the MG News digital channel, transmitted one of the demonstrations of the ‘no kings’ movement (no kings) In Chamblee, in the Metropolitan area of Atlanta, where Dekalb County police intercepted him.
The communicator reported that the authorities advanced towards him, so he placed his phone on the ground and exclaimed that he was a journalist covering the protest, but the officers They arrested him and accused him of three positions: Walk on a vehicular route, obstruction of security agents and illicit meeting.
The journalist’s lawyer, Zacharias Gaeta, presented in the Facebook transmission in MG News that does not consider that The charges are seriousIn addition to the arrest was recorded live, although he did not detail what the communicator’s migratory future would be.
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“We still have good faith, good confidence that it will be able to leave, But we still have to keep fighting“He said.
Guevara is originally from El Salvador, a country in which he was a photojournalist in the graphic press, but then migrated to the United States, where he was a reporter for immigration at the Mundonow site and then founded his digital media MG News, Focused on migratory affairs.
The mass protests that filled the streets of the United States against Trump’s immigration policies on Saturday resulted in the arrest of dozens in various cities in the countryalthough there were no major altercations and the day passed peacefully in general.