A Guatemalan man claims that Jorge Ramos put his life in danger by identifying him as a U.S. immigration agent in his 2005 book “Dying To Cross.”
In the lawsuit filed last month in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Byron Lemus claims that he received death threats and had to flee Guatemala with his family, because Ramos wrongly identified him as an ICE agent involved in capturing a migrant smuggler.
According to an AP story picked up by multiple media outlets, the lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from Ramos and publisher HarperCollins Publishers.
The book in question is “Dying To Cross,” which examines the deaths of 19 immigrants that were packed in a truck and smuggled across the U.S. border in Texas in 2003.
It was actually TMZ that first broke the story yesterday. Although a lawsuit is serious business, you can’t help but laugh at TMZ’s headline: “Mexican TV anchor sued: Your crappy reporting almost got me killed!”
You can check out that story here.
let’s substitute “crappy” with LOUSY
1) he is mexican
2) univision reporting is crappy as best! (Just like the rest of it’s programming)
Whats the problem with the headline?
Meant to say ( at best)
Jim, something tells me Ms Villafane is being biased
Victor,
I don’t know why you would say I was being biased. I didn’t write that headline. TMZ did. I just pointed to it.
Hello Veronica,
you did not write the headline, but to me the comment that shows bias is “you can’t help but laugh at TMZ’s…..” to me it dismisses TMZ’s euphemism which is only paraphrasing the plaintiff’s claim. A very common practice in (TV) tabloids, by the way.
But it’s OK it is your blog and you can side with whoever you like.