Emmy Award-winning Hispanic journalist Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador on Friday after a federal judge denied his emergency order to stay in the United States.

He arrived in El Salvador and gave a press conference that was broadcast on social media, where he talked about his feelings about being back in El Salvador and his four months of incarceration.

Guevara also had a tearful reunion with his mom.

He looked toward the sky and said, “My country, my country, my country. Thank God. This isn’t how I wanted to come to my country, but thank God.”

He posted a photo on Facebook of himself in a restaurant with a plate of pupusas, El Salvador’s signature dish. In another post, he declared himself “ready to continue working twice as hard from my country.”

Guevara, who has covered nu

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