journalist immigration detention ICE Mario Guevara.

A federal judge is questioning whether a Spanish-language journalist arrested at a June protest can remain in immigration detention after charges against him were dropped. Attorneys for journalist Mario Guevara told a federal magistrate judge in Georgia on Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is keeping Mario Guevara in custody because he’s a journalist who frequently records and livestreams activities of ICE agents and other law officers. They are calling for Guevara’s immediate release. Attorneys for the U.S. government argue that ICE has wide discretion to detain Guevara because the El Salvador native is deportable. U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheesbro hasn’t ruled yet.