Ramos sued over alleged false ID in one of his books

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.