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News Articles: ICE

Katherine Guevara

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Family members, journalism advocates and attorneys call for release of Mario Guevara

Attorneys, family members and journalism advocates gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to call for the release of Mario Guevara, a Spanish language journalist detained by immigration officials.

July 22, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
 Alma Bowman (left and second from right) poses in a pair of compiled pictures with family. (Courtesy/John Mitchell)

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  • Law

Macon woman spent her life thinking she was a U.S. citizen. Then ICE detained her twice

Born in the Philippines to an American father and Filipino mother, Alma Bowman came to the U.S. at age 10, grew up and had her own family as a citizen of the U.S. But the 59-year-old, ICE persists, is in the country illegally. GPB's Grant Blankenship explains.

July 17, 2025
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
FILE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain a person, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Immigration agents demand tenant information from landlords, stirring questions and confusion

Immigration authorities are pressuring landlords to share tenant information, including leases and IDs. The requests are a sign that the Trump administration is targeting landlords to assist in its drive for mass deportations.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • Orlando Montoya
The Folkston ICE Processing Center and the D. Ray James Correctional Facility in Folkston, on July 2, 2025. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local

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  • News

ICE finds violations at Folkston detention center but continues to contract with The GEO Group

Hunger strikers held in solitary confinement. Catholic and Muslim detainees denied access to chaplains. Medical staff acted “beyond safe limits” and contributed to the death of an Indian national.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Caitlin Philippo and
  • The Current
Doraville Police body cam showing the arrest of journalist Mario Guevara during a protest in Metro Atlanta on June 14, 2025. Screenshot

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Immigration judge grants bond for Spanish-language journalist arrested during protest

An immigration judge in Georgia has granted bond for a well-known Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering a protest last month. That means he will be free as the government seeks to deport him from the United States.

July 01, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Saru Jayaraman speaks at the launch of the Solidarity Restaurants campaign in New York City on June 20.

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  • News

Michelin-starred Lazy Betty joins push to protect immigrant restaurant workers

A new national campaign is rallying restaurants to support immigrant workers fearing detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Atlanta’s Michelin-starred Lazy Betty is one of more than 100 to sign on.

June 27, 2025
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland
Doraville Police body cam showing the arrest of journalist Mario Guevara during a protest in Metro Atlanta on June 14, 2025. Screenshot

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Press freedom groups sound alarm as Spanish-language journalist remains in ICE custody

Press freedom advocates are raising alarms as a Spanish-language journalist remains in ICE custody after being arrested while covering a protest in metro Atlanta earlier this month.

June 24, 2025
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland and
  • Peter Biello
Sen. Bill Cowsert

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  • Politics

Lawmakers Huddle: Athens lawmakers say it’s not a sanctuary jurisdiction

The Department of Homeland Security has officially removed its list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" from its website, which included six areas in Georgia. The designation has sparked confusion in some of the communities on the controversial list.  

June 06, 2025
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  • Donna Lowry
Protest

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Immigrant rights groups protest proposed Georgia detention center expansion in Charlton County

Opponents of a proposal creating the country’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in South Georgia protested in Atlanta on Thursday morning. Despite the delay in funding for the project, they’re still organizing. 

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Amanda Andrews
A frame grab from dashboard video of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's arrest for driving without a license. The charge would later be dropped but after Immigrations Customs and Enforcement issued and acted on a detainer request to the Whitfield County Jail.

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  • Law

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

North Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who had been in immigration detention for over two weeks, has been granted bond and will go home. 

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Sofi Gratas
Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, center, argued on behalf of some 133 international college students who for now have no way to continue their studies. "There's no doubt that this administration wants foreign students outside the United States, especially those from countries it does not be desirable," Kuck said. "What we see as a result is the terror in these students."

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ICE is reversing terminations of international students’ status after hundreds join Atlanta lawsuit

In a change of policy, ICE will restore the student status of international students whose visas were suddenly revoked.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee and
  • Sarah Kallis
The Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. in 2020 when the county jail was both a county jail and an immigration detention center.

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  • Law

Rules of collaboration are emerging between ICE and Georgia's keepers of the peace: county sheriffs

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationally, Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are slowly doing the same as mandated by a state law passed last year. 

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Crowds gathered along a main thoroughfare in Gainesville, G.a on January 29, 2025 to protest ICE and President Trump's expedited removal policy. The protest followed a weekend of sweeps by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security across Georgia.

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  • Politics

'There is a lot of fear': Latinos gather in North Georgia to protest against mass deportations

This week, some of the first people in Georgia without legal citizenship were reported to be detained by federal agents under Trump’s expedited removal policy, prompting hundreds from the Latino community in Hall County to gather to support each other and speak out against recent federal immigration policy changes.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo

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Organizations react to ICE raids in DeKalb, Brookhaven

Leaders across DeKalb County are responding to arrests made Sunday, Jan. 26 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chamblee, Brookhaven, Doraville, and Lilburn.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Logan Ritchie and
  • Cathy Cobbs
The Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado currently holds more than 600 immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. The facility is operated by GEO Group, a for-profit government contractor.

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  • Investigations

ICE releases investigation into immigrant's death after months of 'inexcusable' delay

Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
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