Ice’s detention of Atlanta reporter seeks to ‘silence him’, ACLU petition says

Thu, 21 Aug 2025

Continued detention of Mario Guevara is retaliation for his reporting and violates his first amendment rights, filing says

The ACLU called Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s continued detention of Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara an act of retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids, according to a federal petition filed on Thursday.

Guevara, a Salvadorian immigrant who has been in the United States for more than 20 years, was arrested on 14 June by a police officer in suburban Atlanta while covering the “No Kings” day protests in a neighborhood with a high density of immigrants. Despite all charges being dropped, Guevara has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention in south Georgia for almost two months, the only journalist in the US imprisoned as a consequence of their work today, the ACLU said.