Oscar Guevara said in a Zoom news conference that since his procedure in 2021, his father, Emmy-winning digital journalist Mario Guevara, “has been the person who keeps me going.” Oscar also suffered a stroke during the procedure. Mario Guevara is in the country illegally," she wrote. Mario Guevara operated his own online news service and regularly covered immigration arrests and other police and crime news. Oscar Guevara said that though he has tried to help keep his father's news site going, he's not a reporter. DHS says that in 2012, Mario Guevara was granted voluntary departure and refused to depart, so he was given a final order of removal.