Journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after US appeals court decision
New York, September 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express outrage that journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador after the Board of Immigration Appeals on Friday re-opened his 13-year-old immigration case, declining to release him on bond. “We are outraged that journalist Mario Guevara was initially…
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