Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador

Emmy Award-winning Hispanic journalist Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador on Friday after a federal judge denied his emergency order to stay in the United States.

He arrived in El Salvador and gave a press conference that was broadcast on social media, where he talked about his feelings about being back in El Salvador and his four months of incarceration.

Guevara also had a tearful reunion with his mom.

He looked toward the sky and said, “My country, my country, my country. Thank God. This isn’t how I wanted to come to my country, but thank God.”

He posted a photo on Facebook of himself in a restaurant with a plate of pupusas, El Salvador’s signature dish. In another post, he declared himself “ready to continue working twice as hard from my country.”

Guevara, who has covered numerous protests in Metro Atlanta over the past 20 years, was arrested on June 14 during a protest in DeKalb County against the Trump administration.

Although DeKalb County police dropped the charges of obstructing the road, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Guevara, claiming he did not complete paperwork for permanent residency.

One of his kids is on the way to El Salvador now to be with him during the beginning of this.

Channel 2 spoke to several people off camera, who were afraid to comment on this.

But one woman said, despite the current fear, folks need to speak.

Read the whole story on WSBTV.com.

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