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NextImg:Media Pushes Another Completely-Fabricated Hoax on Country

An immigrant family of Cultural Enrichers and Basement Laboratory Cancer-Curers made up a hoax and the left-wing propaganda media spread it without doing a moment's worth of fact-checking.

A newspaper in Allentown, PA, called The Morning Call apparently decided it wanted to play Big-Time Media and manufacture a hoax of its own.

The story peddled to this undistinguished rag went like this: A Chilean Cultural Enricher, 82 years young with a long history of Curing Cancers went to a Fascist Government Office to get his green card replaced when, wouldn't you know it, Fascist ICE officers seized him and deported him to the wrong country -- Guatemala -- which he had never even visited. He almost immediately collapsed due to Fascism-Caused Pneumonia and was rushed to a hospital, at which point he died and then ICE pretended they'd never detained him at all.

They just "disappeared" this 82-year-old Cancer Researcher, thus proving that the Current Year Leftist Narrative about "disappearing" people is true.

Here's how one left-wing podcaster "reported" the "story," for example:

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.

Oh no they're disappearing people just like left-wing agitators have been claiming for the past two No Kings protests!

There were a few problems with this convenient narrative-reinforcing tale of woe.


Multiple international news outlets, including The Guardian, ran with the story, giving it an air of credibility, to the point where AI engines like Google and Grok were claiming it was confirmed. But by Sunday, holes started to appear.

For example, why did the family first claim Leon had died in custody before changing the story to him being deported to Guatemala? Why could the Guatemalan authorities find no record of Leon being admitted into their country? Why was the granddaughter, who was the primary source for the press, claiming that Leon had "no plans" to return to the United States if he was illegally deported to a country he's not even from?

Instead of pressing those inconsistencies, though, The Morning Call doubled down. According to their first update of the story, the granddaughter flew to Guatemala and relayed information from Leon himself, including a series of new or altered claims. Immigration lawyer Nicolette Glazer, who has been chronicling this story from the beginning, was immediately skeptical given her expertise.


Nicolette Glazer
@NicoletteGlazer

UPDATE on this very bizarre story: Now the Guatemala Immigration Authorities have issued a press release saying no one by the name of Luis Leon has entered Guatemala lawfully at an immigration checkpoint and no national of Chile has been deported from the US there.


UPDATE on the UPDATES on the alleged deportation by ICE of Luis Leon to Guatemala:

So, after Guatemala flatly denied that anyone with the name Luis Leon from Chile has crossed officially into Guatemala, much less been deported there by ICE, the Morning Call puts up an "update" and doubles down on its reporting, relying exclusively on the granddaughter's account.

But the new details and ICE deafening silence just make this story even more absurd.

The Morning Call doubles down and now says
1. not only is Mr. Leon in Guatemala he got there on 1 July 2025 (10 days after his alleged arrest at the local USCIS office)

2. Mr. Leon "was taken in handcuffs from a Philadelphia immigration office and driven two days by bus to a detention center in Minnesota". To the best of my knowledge, there are no ICE run or GEO/Core Civic/LaSalle etc (private for profit prisons) detention facilities but I believe there are 3 county jails that have contracts with ICE to hold detainees. But the 2-day bus straight bit is not believable and will be a clear violation of the transport standards.

3. Remember the story about how a relative in Chile was the one who found Mr. Leon in a Guatemala City hospital. The new version is that "a Chilean government contact of Leon's brother was able to reach an official [in Guatemala] who told him Leon had been taken to Minnesota, then to Guatemala. It isn't clear if that official was from ICE or another government agency." Hmm what?!

4. Mr. Leon does not plan to come back to the US.

So every time someone checks up on the claims made by this Cultural Enricher, and finds them to be false, she changes the "facts" to new ones that haven't been disproven yet.


First he died in custody but wait no, he was "secretly" shipped to Guatemala, and then he was shipped to Guatemala and died in Guatemala, no wait he's alive again but he's not coming back because Trump is so fascist.
Bill Melugin covered the hoax as well:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

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":

http://mcall.com/2025/07/21/luis-leon-
allentown-grandfather-story-hoax-ice-says/

I can't wait to see which third world hospital this perpetually-dying but perpetually-regenerating codger winds up next.

DHS calls this a malignant hoax:

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.