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"Everything is different now." Mario Guevara is the only known U.S.-based journalist in ICE custody. Now, he's speaking out. The immigration reporter has been detained since June 18 after he was arrested by police while covering an ICE protest in DeKalb County. ICE has placed him in solitary confinement at the Folkston Processing Center, an immigration detention facility near the Florida border. Guevara has spent many years as an immigration reporter based in Atlanta. Recently, Guevara began filming ICE raids happening across the metro area in the wake of President Trump's immigration crackdown. If he is released from detention, Guevara says he would stop documenting these ICE operations. Although he lacks permanent legal status, Guevara has a valid work permit and a path to a green card through his U.S. citizen son, his attorneys have said. ICE did not respond to an AJC request for comment about Guevara’s statements. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security maintains that Guevara is...

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