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An Allentown grandfather’s reported deportation went viral. Then discrepancies emerged. Here’s what we know.
Discrepancies emerge in the Leon family's account, as no one is able to corroborate their story. Federal immigration ...
Lehigh Valley Live6h
US immigration says it didn’t deport 82-year-old Lehigh Valley man
The Morning Call reported that Luis Leon, 82, of Allentown, ended up in Guatemala after being handcuffed in a Philadelphia ...
The Highland County Press7h
DHS sets the record straight, as media fell for another hoax designed to demonize law enforcement
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) set the record straight on misleading and false reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “secretly deported” a so-called ...
ICE deports 82-year-old Pa. man to Guatemala after he lost his green card
He had been granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1987 after being tortured under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s ...
Guatemala denies Chilean green-card holder was deported from US
The Guatemalan government has denied that an 82-year-old Chilean man was deported to Guatemala, despite claims from his ...
Daily Voice17h
DHS: Luis Leon Was Not Deported Or Detained By ICE
A national outcry over the alleged secret deportation and death of an elderly man from Allentown has been debunked, the ...
What we know about claim ICE deported Chilean grandad Luis Leon to Guatemala
The Guatemalan Institute of Migration denied having received the 82-year-old Pennsylvania man despite his family insisting ...
Update: Family says Allentown grandfather in Guatemala after ICE arrest, but country says it has no records of him
Luis Leon is recovering from pneumonia in a Guatemala hospital, his granddaughter said Sunday. He does not plan to return to the U.S. after being taken into ICE custody last month.