The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking emergency relief to prevent the deportation of a journalist after the US Board of Immigration Appeals ended bond proceedings in the case on Friday. Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara was arrested during a June anti-Trump demonstration in Georgia while livestreaming immigration officials and law enforcement. The ACLU claims Guevara “could be put on a deportation plane at any moment.”

State charges against Guevara of unlawful assembly, obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and walking on or along the roadway were dropped in July, but Guevara has remained in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite being allowed to work in the US. ICE lawyers have argued that Guevara’s filming of their agents “endangered the s

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