A Salvadoran journalist who was deported from the United States said Friday he was expelled for reporting on the "unjust arrests" of migrants.

Mario Guevara -- he himself had been living in the US without residency papers or a valid visa -- was arrested in the southern state of Georgia in June while reporting live for his online MG News channel on a protests over President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.

In an email Friday to AFP, the Department of Homeland Security called Guevara an "illegal alien" with a removal order from an immigration judge pending since 2012.

"I was deported not for being a criminal," the 48-year-old journalist, who won an Emmy award for his reporting in 2023, said on arriving back in El Salvador, visibly exhausted, his eyes filling with tears.

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