Random News and Notes 22 July
We start with an immigration story today. An Allentown PA ‘news’ outlet, the Morning Call ran with a story claiming ICE had “abducted” a legal immigrant from Chile while he was attempting to get a new copy of his green card from an Immigration office. The story went that Luis Leon was first sent to a Minnesota detention facility and then deported to Guatemala. One version – the initial one apparently – had Leon dying in ICE custody. The issue? None if this story seems to be true.
. . . UNESCviral online. It appears to have been all made up by the family, which has since gone dark and stopped responding to the press. Here’s what happened since the story first ran in The Morning Call, an Allentown, PA newspaper. – Records in Chile show a man with his same name and date of birth died in Chile in 2019. – Guatemala says they have no record of him being deported to their country. – DHS says there is no record of him appearing at any green card appointment in the Philly area, and they say ICE never arrested him. – DHS says they never deported him, and their only record of him entering the US is in 2015 from Chile via the visa waiver program, not an asylum grant from the 1980s as the family claimed. – His granddaughter claimed he was sick in a Guatemalan hospital with pneumonia after ICE deported him, and that he was traumatized (after first claiming he was dead). A doctor at the hospital she claimed he was at says there is no record of him being there. Link to updated story via the Morning Call, which DHX is calling “another hoax designed to demonize ICE”: mcall.com/2025/07/21/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-story-hoax-ice-says/
ICE/CBP have no record of anyone named Luis Leon being in custody. It appears he never held a green card here in the US. And most damning, he seems to have died in Chile back in 2019. This story was made up out of whole cloth and was designed to smear ICE.
The Trump administration announced its intention to pull out of another globalist agency. This time it is UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
The reasoning behind the withdrawal is UNESCO’s continued push for DEI and its support for interests inimical to US values.
Sadly, I have to report the death of Malcolm Jamal Warner. You may remember him as Theo Huxtable from the Cosby Show. Warner died of an accidental drowning in Costa Rica. He was 54.
Requiescat in pace.
I don’t think I’ve covered this before, but even if I did, there is some new info to pass along. A couple of days ago, there was an incident in front of a bar/club on Santa Monica boulevard in LA. A car drove into a crowd of people on the sidewalk. Miraculously, nobody was killed, though several were injured. The driver – who has been identified as Fernando Ramirez – was initially thought to have had some sort of medical emergency.
Well, turns out that wasn’t true and Sēnor Ramirez is a bad, bad boy. Ramirez had been kicked out of the club that night, twice, before he got in his car and ran down the people on the sidewalk. He attempted to flee and copped a beat down and a gunshot wound for his troubles.
He also has a lengthy criminal record. He has multiple violent felony convictions including two for domestic violence issues. Hopefully he gets stitched up well and good this time. It is Commiefornia however, so. . .
President Trump is hosting Philippine President Bongbong Marcos for a State visit. Bongbong is the only son of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, she of the 3000 pairs of shoes.
The main reason I mention this is that Bongbong is still subject to an arrest warrant here in the US because he hasn’t paid $353 million in restitution for human rights abuses.
