Metro Atlanta journalist deported Friday after legal battle

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Local journalist Mario Guevara, who built a large following in metro Atlanta and beyond covering immigration enforcement for a Spanish-speaking audience, was deported Friday to his native El Salvador.

Guevara livestreamed a video of Salvadoran journalists interviewing him Friday afternoon upon his arrival in Olocuilta, a town that is near the Salvadoran airport and famous for pupusas.

Climbing out of a Salvadoran border patrol truck, Guevara wiped away tears as he video-called his family, looked around and said, “My homeland,” three times in Spanish.

“This wasn’t how I wanted to go to my homeland, but thank God,” he said.

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