US Immigration and Customs Enforcement- ICE, secretly deported Chilean Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card.
Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10 hours, and later told the family; through a fake “lawyer,” that he was dead.
Turns out, ICE quietly transferred him through a Minnesota detention center and dumped him in Guatemala, a country he has zero ties to. There’s no deportation paperwork, no public record. His family only found him alive after relatives in Chile tracked him to a Guatemalan hospital.
Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues. The DOJ is now under fire, but this is the Trump-era immigration machine still in motion—cruel, unaccountable, and lawless.
If they can disappear an elderly, law-abiding U.S. resident. They can disappear anyone. ICE agents handcuffed Leon on the spot.
They detained his wife for 10 hours, and then—through a fake “lawyer”—told the family Luis was dead.
No explanation. No due process. Just gone. But Luis Leon wasn’t dead.
ICE quietly rerouted him through a Minnesota detention center, then dumped him in Guatemala—a country where he has zero family ties, no legal history, and no citizenship.
There’s no deportation paperwork. No public record. No official trail.
The family only found him alive after relatives in Chile managed to locate him in a Guatemalan hospital, days after ICE claimed he was deceased in cells.
He suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition.
This was a death sentence in disguise.
Leon has been a legal permanent resident for nearly 40 years. He survived torture in Chile.
Now he’s the victim of a system that still operates in the shadows.
This is the Trump-era immigration machine—still grinding, still cruel, and still unaccountable.
