Press freedom in the United States has come under sharp scrutiny after multiple journalists — including some who are immigrants themselves — were arrested, assaulted, or deported while covering Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. Among the most serious cases, Mario Guevara, an Emmy award-winning Salvadoran journalist based in Atlanta for nearly two decades, was detained for over 100 days — much of it in isolation — before being deported to El Salvador, separated from his wife and children; he maintains he was targeted for documenting ICE activities, a claim the Department of Homeland Security denies. The crackdown has also had international consequences, with four journalists, including three working for the Associated Press, briefly detained in Yaoundé, Cameroon (a Central African nation), while reporting on migrants deported from the US to the country under secretive third-party removal agreements struck by the Trump administration.