Spanish-language journalist still in Ice custody despite being granted bond
by Associated Press from on (#6YGVA)
Mario Guevara, arrested in Georgia while covering a protest, still detained after Ice refused his family's bond payment
A week after an immigration judge granted him bond, a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody.
Police just outside Atlanta arrested Mario Guevara while he was covering a protest on 14 June, and he was turned over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) several days later. He was being held at an immigration detention center in Folkston - in south-east Georgia, near the Florida border - when an immigration judge last week granted him bond.
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