ICE secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost his Green Card

According to a report, a 82 -year -old Chile’s national family was afraid that he had died for weeks before he discovered that he had been detained by ICE after placing his green card wrong.

Relatives saw Luis Leon, who lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania on June 20, when they visited the Philadelphia Immigration Office to replace her wife and wife’s missing green card. Morning call First report.

There, the officers handcuffed him and took him out of the statement, the relatives told him to exit. His family contacted immigration offices, hospitals and even a morgue for more information about Leon’s where.

Then, on July 9, Leon’s wife received a call that confirms the worst fears of the family; The caller claimed that the 82 -year -old child had died.

Fortunately, this week, family members, Leon’s detention facility Guatemala in Minnesota. Outlet, now in a hospital in the city of Guatemala reported. Independent He reached ICE for more information.

Luis Leon was moved from an detention facility in Minnesota to Guatemala (Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved)

It is not immediately clear why he was sent to Guatemala. Last month, however, the Supreme Court left the door open to deport the immigrants of the Trump administration to the countries where they had never called their home.

“I can see that my entire family has suffered right now,” said his grandson Nataly Morning call. Diabetes plans to fly to Guatemala to see his grandfather suffer from high blood pressure and other conditions.

He told Outlet that he hoped to increase the experience of showing Leon’s treatment by the immigration system.

If the multi -positioned ordeal is not enough, another time contacted the unknown seeking family. He claimed that the immigration officials claimed that he was a woman who claimed to be an immigrant lawyer called Leon’s wife days after arresting Leon and that he could help take Leon out of bail. However, he did not say how he learned the case or where he was at that time.

Outlet, Leon in 1987, the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime after the political asylum was given. The family has a clean record – and not as much as park tickets.

Data Distribution Organization Process Records are not alone, numbers from Access Clearinghouse Show. As of this week, Ice detained 56,800 people; There is no criminal conviction in 72 percent.