The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) announced on Wednesday the arrest of a former intelligence officer for the Cuban Communist Castro administration for fraudulently obtaining a US green card.
Although ICE has not publicly disclosed the identity of the former Cuban intelligence agent during the press, HSI's Miami division released photos of the arrests via social media Wednesday afternoon, saying the arrests were made in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The arrested man, whose face appears to have gray hair, not seen in the photo, is accused of having illegally acquired permanent residence status in the United States. Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for Miami-based Homeland Security Research It is reportedly I explained it The arrest was made in West Park, Broward County.
“FBI Miami confirms that it has arrested a representative of Castro's dictator who lied to immigration applications and infiltrated the community,” Rep. Carlos Guimenez (R-FL) said Wednesday through social media. “Biden has allowed our country to be filled with these oppressors. We are now working with the Trump administration to remove these agents of the administration from our country.”
Several members of the Cuban diaspora in the United States have accused dozens of members of the Castro administration of over the past year of using immigration policies implemented during US President Joe Biden's administration, including the Biden administration's “humanitarian parole” program and open border politics.
Some of the known cases include Luis Raul Gonzalez Paldo Rodriguez, a Cuban pilot associated with the deaths of four American citizens in 1996. input Similarly, Manuel Menendez Castellanos, a former member of the Cuban Communist Party and a former member of the murderous communist dictator Fidel Castro, also entered the United States in August. program It is known as “Unified Parole for Cuban Familys” and is believed to be resident in Florida.
August, Cuba Human Rights Foundation (FHRC), non-governmental organizations; Condemnation The number of representatives of the Castro administration that entered the United States has “increased five times” since 2023. FHRC maintains publicly verified list of approximately 1,000 known Castro Regime Repressors. The organization warned that 115 known Cuban suppressors (over 10% of the organization's verification list) had entered the United States since February 2023.
That same month, Patmos Institute, Cuba's Parents' Human Rights and Religious Freedom NGO Expression Concerns about “a surprising trend in the entry of Cuba's communist system to the US.”
The organization's director, Mario Felix Lionato, felt wary because the group was “not two, not four, not four,” but instead said he was “continually watching” officials from the “highest” Castro administration entered the United States.
Cuba Prime Minister Manuel Marello Cruz's two nies It is reportedly After crossing the US southern border in 2022, he resided in Florida, and the other was accepted in 2023 as a beneficiary of the Biden administration's “humanitarian parole” program.
Marello Cruz's son, Manuel Alejandro Marello Medina, was reportedly accepted as a beneficiary of the “parole” program, but the required flight permission was ultimately It was rejectedprevented him from boarding the plane.
In December 2023, US prosecutors indicted 74-year-old Victor Manuel Rocha, a longtime US diplomat and former US ambassador to Bolivia, for over 40 years, extensively spying on Cuba's communist regime.
Rosha, a naturalized American citizen born in Columbia who lived in Miami at the time of his arrest, Judgment He was in prison for 15 years in April 2024 after he pleaded guilty.
“If you know of the Cuban murderous dictatorship oppressor who currently lives in the United States, please report him here,” Gimenez said, “here to tell him,” he said. I said On Wednesday evening, we will share a link to the list of known Cubali Pressers from FHRC. “Agents in the administration have no place in the community of victims of these villainous people.”
