Mario Guevara

Mario Guevara is a Salvadoran journalist and asylum seeker who was deported from the United States in October 2025.

Biography Guevara worked in El Salvador until fleeing the country with his family in 2004 due to political persecution. He then became a resident in the United States, where he mostly reported on the topic of immigration in Atlanta. He was nominated for and won multiple Southeast Emmy Awards. Guevara was ordered removed from the United States by an immigration judge in 2012. He worked for Mundo Hispánico until founding MG News in 2024. Charges against him were dropped and he was taken into ICE custody in order to undergo deportation proceedings. The case was appealed and subsequently closed. Guevara held a work visa and had a pending green card application as of September 2025.

Guevara's case garnered a large number of followers on social media due to his coverage of immigration raids. The ACLU described his detention and prosecution as political censorship. His detention was opposed by the University of Georgia's First Amendment Clinic, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists and other journalistic freedom organizations. As of January of the following year, he was still reporting on United States immigration issues from outside the United States.