Editor’s note: The video above is from an earlier report.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Mario Guevara, the Atlanta Spanish-language journalist who spent months in ICE custody, has been deported.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Guevara was deported at 4 a.m. on Friday to El Salvador.

“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said Katherine Jacobsen, U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case as authorities would have the public believe. Guevara was first detained in retaliation for his reporting and throughout his prolonged detention, the government argued that he was being held becau

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