GUATEMALA CITY — The Guatemalan authorities on Sunday denied that U.S. authorities deported a Chilean man to the Central American nation.
The Morning Name of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported Luis Leon, 82, a authorized everlasting resident of the USA who gained asylum in 1987, ended up in Guatemala after being handcuffed in a Philadelphia immigration workplace, the place he went to exchange his misplaced inexperienced card. The news report relied on household accounts.
The Morning Name reported Sunday that Leon was recovering from pneumonia in Guatemala and didn’t plan to return to the USA, based on his granddaughter.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was wanting into the circumstances, based on The Morning Name. ICE didn’t reply to questions from The Related Press on Sunday.
The Guatemalan Migration Institute stated in a press release that it coordinates with ICE on all deportations from the USA and that nobody matched Leon’s title, age or citizenship.
Guatemala agreed in February to obtain folks deported from the USA who’re from different Central American international locations. Its settlement doesn’t prolong to Chileans.
The Trump administration has embraced deporting folks to countries other than their own, together with El Salvador, South Sudan and, final week, the African kingdom of Eswatini.