An immigration judge ordered that Spanish -speaking journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday, although a pending case of the initial adaptation was triggered before a federal court and carried out a rapid attempt by his lawyers to prevent deportation.
Guevara was arrested in the early summer while reporting an anti-iron protest in Dekalb County. His arrest has alerted the supporters of freedom of speech and attracted national attention.
The judgment on Friday is based on an arrangement from 2012, which is due to Guevara's application for Asylum in 2005. While his application was originally rejected, the case was administered administratively in the appeal procedure, which has held the deportation procedure against Guevara indefinitely, but not permanently. The new order came to the conclusion that a former immigration judge was prohibited from granting Guevara bonds based on this order in July.
The Senator of Sandy Springs Democratic State Josh McLaurin, who is also a lawyer, spoke against the decision of the immigration judge at a hastily mentioned press conference on Friday.
“I want to make something clear. This is not a court in the traditional sense. This is not the judiciary with the judges of the Senate.
After the decision of the immigration judge this year, this deportation case was reopened in 2012, which made it possible at any time at any deportation by Guevara.
Guevara's lawyers had also tried to argue in front of a federal court that his continued detention by ice was illegal for reasons of first adaptation. The Guevara Rights team led by the ACLU by Georgia requests an injunction that prevents the Federal Government from completing Guevara, while this is pending before the Federal Court.
In this case, an emergency hearing was called late Friday afternoon. While the supporters had hoped that an injunction would be granted immediately, the judge asked the lawyers on both sides instead to enter additional letters by next week. It is unclear whether the federal authorities will try to deport Guevara while the injunction is still pending.
Guevara was arrested on June 14th. He was transferred in ice From the DEKALB County prison under the conditions of a controversial immigration law of Georgia.
Guevara originally comes from El Salvador and, according to his lawyers, has legally lived and worked in the USA over the past 20 years. He fled out of fear of political violence because of his work as a journalist from El Salvador. As a long -time journalist for Spanish -speaking Outlet Mundo Hispanico, he founded his own newsroom, Mgnews in 2024.
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