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Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering protest near Atlanta deported to El Salvador
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(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)ATLANTA -- ATLANTA (AP) — A Spanish-language journalist who had been in immigration detention in Georgia since June was deported Friday to El Salvador.
His lawyers had been fighting parallel battles in the immigration court and federal court systems trying to get him released.
Guevara fled El Salvador two decades ago out of fear and amassed a big audience as a journalist in the Atlanta area.
Shortly after Guevara entered ICE custody in June, the government asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen that old immigration case.
It also ordered him deported to El Salvador and dismissed the government's appeal of the bond ruling, saying it is now moot.