Press freedom groups on Friday filed an amicus brief in support of a journalist who has been in ICE detention in Georgia for more than 100 days.

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language journalist originally from El Salvador, faces imminent deportation in a case lawyers and advocates say violates the First Amendment.

“Mario is the only journalist in the United States jailed for his reporting,” Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and the director of digital justice and civil rights at Free Press, told Scripps News. “This is so antithetical to the way the U.S. was founded, to the ways that the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment were created. This is exactly the situation the First Amendment intended and was written to protect against.”

Guevara was arrested in June while livestreaming at a No King

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