{"id":25477,"date":"2025-07-21T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:25:10","slug":"guatemala-denies-that-chilean-green-card-holder-was-deported-from-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25477\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala denies that Chilean green-card holder was deported from the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUATEMALA CITY — The Guatemalan government on Sunday denied that U.S. authorities deported a Chilean man to the Central American country. <\/p>\n

The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported Luis Leon, 82, a legal permanent resident of the United States who won asylum in 1987, ended up in Guatemala after being handcuffed in a Philadelphia immigration office, where he went to replace his lost green card. The news report<\/a> relied on family accounts.<\/p>\n

The Morning Call reported Sunday that Leon was recovering from pneumonia in Guatemala and didn\u2019t plan to return to the United States, according to his granddaughter.<\/p>\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was looking into the circumstances, according to The Morning Call. ICE did not respond to questions from The Associated Press on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Guatemalan Migration Institute said in a statement that it coordinates with ICE on all deportations from the United States and that no one matched Leon’s name, age or citizenship. <\/p>\n

Guatemala agreed in February<\/a> to receive people deported from the United States who are from other Central American countries. Its agreement does not extend to Chileans.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has embraced deporting people to countries other than their own,<\/a> including El Salvador, South Sudan and, last week, the African kingdom of Eswatini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUATEMALA CITY — The Guatemalan government on Sunday denied that U.S. authorities deported a Chilean man to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[22338,23,966,793,790,3,111,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-25477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-22338","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-u-s-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}