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Michael Sainato in New York

Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather after he lost green card, report says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who said they have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.

According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, longtime Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and his wife booked an appointment to get it replaced.

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