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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June. He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

Journalists should never have to fear government retaliation for reporting on government activity, and showing up to work shouldn't result in your family being torn apart.

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Some do, some dont. Some people, many people in fact, don't speak to whoever is left in their family. The Hallmark movie version of these stories is offensive, deeply. It's like "grandmother hit by bus." A LIFE IS NOT WORTH MORE BECAUSE OF THE OTHERS WHO ARE LINKED TO IT. ALL HUMAN LIFE MATTERS!

Everyone has a family even of some distant relation. The whole world is like your 8th cousin. Or you have friends that are your found family. The point remains that abducting people and severing their social connections and relationships is bad.