A Salvadoran journalist who was deported from the United States said Friday he was expelled for reporting on the "unjust arrests" of migrants. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"I was deported not for being a criminal," the 48-year-old journalist, who won an Emmy award for his reporting in 2023, said on arriving back in El Salvador, visibly exhausted, his eyes filling with tears. Guevara arrived in El Salvador without luggage, wearing only the helmet and protective vest marked "Press" that he was wearing on the day of his arrest. He was deported with 117 other citizens of El Salvador, whose iron-fisted President Nayib Bukele has cheered Trump's migrant policy and caused an outcry by interning a group of deported Venezuelans in a brutal anti-gang prison for months. Katherine Jacobsen, a representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Guevara's expulsion was the first documented case of a deportation from the United States "as retaliation related to reporting activity."