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BlueWavePsych

(3,116 posts)
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 07:22 AM Sunday

82 Year Old Green Card Holder Disappeared And Deported By ICE

Here's another ICE story the MAGA world can be proud of. Luis Leon is an 82 year legal immigrant (green card holder) who has lived in the United States for nearly 40 years. He doesn't have so much as a parking ticket on his record. He has cleaner record than most of us.

His one "mistake" was losing his wallet with his green card in it. Doing the right thing, he made an appointment with the nearest immigration office to have it replaced. On June 20th he arrived at the immigration office as scheduled. Instead ICE officials led the 82 year old away in handcuffs with no explanation.

With that Luis Leon was disappeared by the Trump Regime. His family could not find out anything about him, to include where he had been taken. His name did not appear on the database of ICE detainees. Calls by his family to prisons, immigration officials, even hospitals got no answers.

But Luis Leon was in ICE custody. ICE first disappeared him to a detention center in Minnesota and then shipped him off to Guatemala with no due process, and no notice to his family. 82 years old and suffering from a variety of ailments, including diabetes and a heart condition, Leon ended up in a Guatemalan hospital which is who contacted the family.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/19/2334208/-82-Year-Old-Green-Card-Holder-Disappeared-And-Deported-By-ICE



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pazzyanne

(6,700 posts)
2. I am heartsick at what is happening in my country!
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 08:06 AM
Sunday

Another reason to hate our current administration, like we need more. I can no longer have pride in my country.

sop

(15,221 posts)
5. Much like Japanese internment during WWII.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 08:55 AM
Sunday

It took over forty years for the US government to formally apologize and provide reparations to those affected.

DFW

(58,505 posts)
7. This time, it shouldn't take long for the apology to come
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 09:15 AM
Sunday

It’s finding them all that will be the challenge.

I don’t think the Trumpanzees are concerned with throwing away the key. They want to throw away any record of them having existed at all.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,675 posts)
4. Anyone here now think I am being hyperbolic to be completely terrified for my wife after four years
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 08:46 AM
Sunday

fighting to get her green card?

Please someone tell me now that I shouldn't be terrified every time she goes to work that these ICE Freikorps won't pick her up by snatching her off the street even though she has a valid green card with nine years left on the validity.

I said this will happen and it is. We are now Germany in 1934. I wonder when the Night of Long Knives will happen, since the Big Beautiful Bill was The Enabling Act.

SunSeeker

(56,167 posts)
9. It gets weirder. Guatemala denies he was deported from the United States.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 02:08 AM
Yesterday

Guatemala denies that Chilean green-card holder was deported from the United States.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/guatemala-denies-that-chilean-green-card-holder-20777864.php

His family should sue the shit out of ICE.

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