Overview

• On Sept. 19, the Board of Immigration Appeals reopened Guevara’s 2012 matter, deemed a prior removal order final, dismissed bond proceedings as moot, and ordered his return to El Salvador.
• Guevara remains in ICE custody at the Folkston processing center despite an immigration judge granting bond in July that the government appealed and kept stayed.
• The ACLU and Guevara’s attorneys have filed emergency habeas and restraining motions in federal court in Waycross seeking to halt an imminent deportation, with a hearing held Friday.
• Police arrested Guevara on June 14 while he livestreamed a protest near Atlanta, but all related criminal and subsequent traffic charges were dismissed or not prosecuted.
• His lawyers say he has lived in the U.S. for over two decades with work authorization and a pending green-card petition through his U.S. citizen son, and they argue the board relied on incorrect case history, while ICE maintains he is removable for immigration violations.