Overview

• The Guatemalan Migration Institute said no records match Leon’s name, age or citizenship despite agreements with U.S. authorities to coordinate deportations.
• Luis Leon, who won asylum in 1987 after fleeing Chile’s Pinochet regime, was handcuffed at a Philadelphia USCIS office on June 20 while replacing a lost green card.
• Family efforts to locate him through ICE’s databases and inquiries to hospitals and prisons failed, and they were briefly told he had died before learning he was alive in Guatemala.
• Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition, raising concerns about his medical care far from his Pennsylvania home.
• ICE has confirmed it is investigating the circumstances of his detention, transfer to Minnesota and removal to a country with which he has no ties.