Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala

https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/

66•georgecmu•6mo ago

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baxtr•6mo ago

>This content is not available in your region

can16358p•6mo ago

Same.

Some webmasters are apparently stuck in 1990s.

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

It’s a local newspaper. It would be asinine for them to expend any effort trying to comply with global content rules.

olddustytrail•6mo ago

Yeah, not being a creepy weirdo who tracks anyone who visits your website is such a difficult thing.

How can anyone live up to such a standard?

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

> not being a creepy weirdo who tracks anyone who visits your website is such a difficult thing

This is easy. Confirming compliance is not.

Also, there are content laws other than GDPR. If you’re a small-budget website and need to certify you’re compliant with all laws and regulations you’re subject to, it’s cheaper to block than confirm you’re up to date with the latest Brazilian or German content codes.

olddustytrail•6mo ago

They're all the same. Don't spy on people and you're sorted.

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

> They're all the same. Don't spy on people and you're sorted

Vibe lawyering is totally insufficient if you need to certify you're in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

olddustytrail•6mo ago

Oh in that case you should never have a website at all because you never know what laws you might be contravening.

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

> you should never have a website at all because you never know what laws you might be contravening

Or, again, ensure compliance in the jurisdictions where you have paying customers. And if another jurisdiction presents ambiguity, block it and carry on. I'm not worried about my work violating North Korean law because I have no intention of ever being subject to it.

comrade1234•6mo ago

Strange. I'm in Switzerland and I can read it.

beej71•6mo ago

https://archive.ph/47uxV

JohnTHaller•6mo ago

It's MUCH easier and cheaper for local US newspapers to block visitors outside the US than to comply with multiple content/privacy laws around the world.

stuartjohnson12•6mo ago

https://archive.is/47uxV

comrade1234•6mo ago

This guy had a green card and no past crimes. They're also deporting refugees that are here under protection. What they're doing is lawless and immoral.

I'm 100% for deporting people that have overstayed their visas and are working. They are workers without labor protections and essentially slave labor and when they get hurt on the job their medical bills are payed by you. (In this case the government should make those that were supporting them pay their medical bills)

jaybrendansmith•6mo ago

Please someone explain to me why this is legal, acceptable, constitutional. Explain it like I'm 5.

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

To which this do you refer?

jaybrendansmith•6mo ago

Um...the part where an 82 year old man with a green card and four grandchildren and was accepted as a political refugee is deported when renewing his green card and his wife, family, and children are allowed to think he is dead when he's actually in a foreign hospital. I am from Allentown, this hits close to home.

yladiz•6mo ago

C'mon, I don't think the parent was saying "explain 1 of the 3", it's needlessly picky to ask this question.

JumpCrisscross•6mo ago

The article is about one man. The comment OP responded to mentioned “deporting people that have overstayed their visas and are working.” I wanted to clarify what they were asking about.

mrexroad•6mo ago

> Leon was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, according to his granddaughter, Nataly, who asked that her surname not be used because she fears U.S. government retribution against her and her relatives.

The irony here is beyond fucked up.

burnt-resistor•6mo ago

America has finally reached the Ihre Papiere, bitte. of its racist golf clubization development cycle. According to the proponents of the Strauss-Howe generational "theory" (hypothesis), expect the self-destructive crisis to last around 20 ± 5 years unless or until it can nudged sooner by socio-political change.

Gibbon1•6mo ago

I'm not particularly happy to be facing my twilight years going into this.

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Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala

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