Spanish-language journalist still in Ice custody despite being granted bond

A week after an immigration judge granted him bond, a Spanish-language journalist who was arrested while covering a protest last month remains in federal custody.

Police just outside Atlanta arrested Mario Guevara while he was covering a protest on 14 June, and he was turned over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) several days later. He was being held at an immigration detention center in Folkston – in south-east Georgia, near the Florida border – when an immigration judge last week granted him bond.

But when his family tried to pay the $7,500 bond last week, Ice didn’t accept it and he has since been shuffled between three other jails, his lawyer, Giovanni Diaz, said.