Mario Guevara deported
Journalist Mario Guevara, despite being here legally and committing no crimes, has been deported. This one hits me close to home.
As reported in USA Today last Friday, journalist Maria Guevara was deported to El Salvador after his arrest covering the No Kings protests in Atlanta. H was an Emmy-award winning journalist who had been in the U.S. since 2004. He originally came to this country after receiving death threats for his work as a journalist at a conservative newspaper.
Upon his deportation, he had to leave behind his. wife and children, who live in the U.S.
He was merely doing his job. He was here legally. His only crime was doing something the administration didn't like and not looking white. The Bitter Southerner published a letter from him written from his cell in the detention center:
"Since my arrest, I have lost tens of thousands of dollars and my company, the news channel MGNews, is on the verge of bankruptcy.
But I have to remain strong and confident that the United States still has some caring and decency left and that in the end justice will prevail.
I hope that it will be soon, because for me, every day is like a week.
Hopefully, soon all my tears and my family’s tears will be wiped away, and we can have fun and smile, triumphant, as we did before, together and in absolute freedom."
I'd encourage you all read the whole thing.
It should bring to mind other famous missives from jail (Thoreau, Ghandi, and MLK, for example). We must not, as a country continue this. A free press and respect for established laws and norms must be respected.
Non in cautus futuri.
