BillsFanNC Posted July 22 Posted July 22 (edited) NEW: It appears another hoax has been attempted. Family members of an 82-year-old Chilean man in PA went to the media claiming ICE arrested him while renewing a green card in Philly, that he died in ICE custody, then that he was secretly deported to Guatemala. The story went viral online. It appears to have been all made up by the family, which has since gone dark and stopped responding to the press. Here's what happened since the story first ran in The Morning Call, an Allentown, PA newspaper. - Records in Chile show a man with his same name and date of birth died in Chile in 2019. - Guatemala says they have no record of him being deported to their country. - DHS says there is no record of him appearing at any green card appointment in the Philly area, and they say ICE never arrested him. - DHS says they never deported him, and their only record of him entering the US is in 2015 from Chile via the visa waiver program, not an asylum grant from the 1980s as the family claimed. - His granddaughter claimed he was sick in a Guatemalan hospital with pneumonia after ICE deported him, and that he was traumatized (after first claiming he was dead). A doctor at the hospital she claimed he was at says there is no record of him being there. Link to updated story via the Morning Call, which DHX is calling "another hoax designed to demonize ICE": mcall.com/2025/07/21/lui… Edited Friday at 11:58 AM by BillsFanNC 1
JaCrispy Posted July 22 Posted July 22 13 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said: NEW: It appears another hoax has been attempted. Family members of an 82-year-old Chilean man in PA went to the media claiming ICE arrested him while renewing a green card in Philly, that he died in ICE custody, then that he was secretly deported to Guatemala. The story went viral online. It appears to have been all made up by the family, which has since gone dark and stopped responding to the press. Here's what happened since the story first ran in The Morning Call, an Allentown, PA newspaper. - Records in Chile show a man with his same name and date of birth died in Chile in 2019. - Guatemala says they have no record of him being deported to their country. - DHS says there is no record of him appearing at any green card appointment in the Philly area, and they say ICE never arrested him. - DHS says they never deported him, and their only record of him entering the US is in 2015 from Chile via the visa waiver program, not an asylum grant from the 1980s as the family claimed. - His granddaughter claimed he was sick in a Guatemalan hospital with pneumonia after ICE deported him, and that he was traumatized (after first claiming he was dead). A doctor at the hospital she claimed he was at says there is no record of him being there. Link to updated story via the Morning Call, which DHX is calling "another hoax designed to demonize ICE": mcall.com/2025/07/21/lui… The Left always tries to win with emotion, instead of facts…They know their arguments are not popular, on their own merit, so they resort to “feelings”. 2 2
CoudyBills Posted July 22 Posted July 22 9 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: NEW: It appears another hoax has been attempted. Family members of an 82-year-old Chilean man in PA went to the media claiming ICE arrested him while renewing a green card in Philly, that he died in ICE custody, then that he was secretly deported to Guatemala. The story went viral online. It appears to have been all made up by the family, which has since gone dark and stopped responding to the press. Here's what happened since the story first ran in The Morning Call, an Allentown, PA newspaper. - Records in Chile show a man with his same name and date of birth died in Chile in 2019. - Guatemala says they have no record of him being deported to their country. - DHS says there is no record of him appearing at any green card appointment in the Philly area, and they say ICE never arrested him. - DHS says they never deported him, and their only record of him entering the US is in 2015 from Chile via the visa waiver program, not an asylum grant from the 1980s as the family claimed. - His granddaughter claimed he was sick in a Guatemalan hospital with pneumonia after ICE deported him, and that he was traumatized (after first claiming he was dead). A doctor at the hospital she claimed he was at says there is no record of him being there. Link to updated story via the Morning Call, which DHX is calling "another hoax designed to demonize ICE": mcall.com/2025/07/21/lui… Did they post the names of the family members who perpetrated the hoax? That might stop this bull####. 1
B-Man Posted July 22 Posted July 22 DHS Sets the Record Straight: ICE Never Deported Media’s “Allentown Grandfather” Release Date: July 21, 2025 The media fell for another hoax designed to demonize ICE law enforcement WASHINGTON – Today, 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 “Allentown grandfather” to Guatemala. Additionally, reporting claimed he “died” in ICE custody. The Morning Call, an Allentown, Pennsylvania, newspaper published the following headline on July 20, 2025, without any facts from DHS about major allegations made against law enforcement: The family of the individual allegedly told reporters he was handcuffed and taken by federal officers at a green card appointment in Philadelphia. This claim is completely false. There is no record of the man appearing at any green card appointment in or around the area of Philadelphia on June 20, 2025. Furthermore, ICE has not deported Luis Leon—a Chilean national—to Guatemala, as his family members have said. ICE’s only record of this individual entering the U.S. is in 2015 from Chile under the visa waiver program. According to reporting by the Associated Press, the Guatemalan Institute of Migration—which coordinates with ICE on all deportations from the U.S. to Guatemala—claims they have not received anyone matching the name, age or nationality of Luis Leon back into Guatemala. According to the report, the family alleges a woman claiming to be an immigration lawyer called and offered to help them but did not disclose how she knew about the case. The family claims this individual also told them Leon died in ICE custody. “ICE never arrested or deported Luis Leon to Guatemala. Nor does ICE ‘disappear’ people—this is a categorical lie being peddled to demonize ICE agents who are already facing an 830% increase in assaults against them. This was a hoax peddled by the media who rushed to press without pausing to corroborate the facts with DHS. This was journalistic malpractice,” said Assistant Secretary McLaughlin. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/21/dhs-sets-record-straight-ice-never-deported-medias-allentown-grandfather
BillsFanNC Posted Friday at 11:56 AM Author Posted Friday at 11:56 AM And who buys it every single time they cry wolf? Roundy. In another disturbing incident of disinformation, in a TikTok post with over 800,000 views, a woman says, "They're throwing the deportees out of the planes and into the ocean. [...] they're shackling people, flying out into open ocean and throwing them out. The flight patterns, there is people tracking them on this app, the flights going out with the deportees. Watching them go out to the open ocean and circle back. A family in Italy saw five shackled bodies wash up on the shore." 1
CoudyBills Posted Friday at 10:31 PM Posted Friday at 10:31 PM 10 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: And who buys it every single time they cry wolf? Roundy. In another disturbing incident of disinformation, in a TikTok post with over 800,000 views, a woman says, "They're throwing the deportees out of the planes and into the ocean. [...] they're shackling people, flying out into open ocean and throwing them out. The flight patterns, there is people tracking them on this app, the flights going out with the deportees. Watching them go out to the open ocean and circle back. A family in Italy saw five shackled bodies wash up on the shore." So provide the bodies...
BillsFanNC Posted Friday at 10:37 PM Author Posted Friday at 10:37 PM 5 minutes ago, CoudyBills said: So provide the bodies... They can't. They chum the waters, then drop the illegals directly into the jaws of sharks. It's true. Ask Roundy. 1
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