From Question Everything: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Last June, journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an anti-ICE protest in Georgia, transferred to ICE detention, and locked up by the federal government for more than 100 days. But Mario is not the kind of ICE-criticizing reporter you might be picturing. He was a Trump-supporting, Republican-identifying, law-and-order-sympathizing immigration hawk, who knew ICE well and had covered them favorably for years. Why did the Trump administration still go after him? In this special two-part series from Question Everything, Brian Reed looks into. Mario Guevara. This is part one. Find part two, and more from Question Everything, wherever you get podcasts.
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| 0:07.3 | I'm Alex Barker. I'm a journalist at the Financial Times. |
| 0:10.6 | Years ago, my fellow reporter Patricia Nilsson and I started digging into the porn industry to find out how the money flows. |
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| 0:44.3 | Hey, drilled listeners, Amy here. We'll be back with new episodes soon and an all-new season this April. but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a special episode from our friends over at Question Everything. |
| 1:00.5 | This is one of my new favorite podcasts. On Question Everything, host Brian Reed explores the moral and political tensions behind the story shaping public life. |
| 1:09.5 | Focusing on accountability and complexity, |
| 1:11.8 | question everything unravels the messy, high-stakes world where journalism and power collide. |
| 1:18.1 | Today's episode is part one of a special two-part series on journalist Mario Gavara. |
| 1:23.4 | Mario was arrested while covering an anti-ice protest in Georgia and locked up by the federal government for more than a hundred days. |
| 1:31.9 | But Mario was a Trump-supporting immigration hawk who knew ice well and had covered them favorably for years. |
| 1:38.9 | So why did the Trump administration still go after him? |
| 1:42.3 | I hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 1:43.6 | If you do, check out |
| 1:44.8 | part two on Question Everything, where Brian digs into Mario's deportation, what it means for other |
| 1:50.5 | journalists, and whether we can depend on the First Amendment to be upheld. Find Question |
| 1:56.2 | Everything wherever you get podcasts. |
| 2:15.2 | I want to play you something the president said the other week because you might have missed it. |
| 2:18.6 | This was shortly after an ICE agent had fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good at point-blank range in her car in Minneapolis. At first, |
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