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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arrested a Cuban citizen in the state of Georgia, who has convictions for sexual offenses against minors, and will be processed for deportation.
Michael Alard González, a "convicted child sex predator" who had been illegally in the U.S. since 1998, was arrested last week, announced the federal agency in a statement on the social network X.
CBP labeled Alard González as "human trash" and "savage," and described disturbing details from his criminal record.
"During his detention, he made repugnant statements. He admitted that he was driving his car around high schools in Georgia searching for girls. His aim was to abuse them and flee," he revealed. "Thanks to CBP, this predator is already off the streets."
The arrest of Alard González adds to other recent arrests of Cubans, who have been convicted or accused of similar crimes and are awaiting deportation, in a context characterized by the intensification of U.S. government policy on the expulsion of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Rolquis Torres Ricardo in Miami last week, whose record includes convictions for child sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Rolando Marino Cordero Rodríguez, a 76-year-old man who arrived in the U.S. during the Mariel boatlift in 1980, was also arrested by ICE in that city on October 25. Cordero Rodríguez had been tried in 1985 and sentenced to prison for having had a romantic relationship with a 17-year-old minor. He had a final deportation order since 1997.
These three Cubans could be deported to a destination other than their home country if the government of Havana does not accept them back.
The Cuban regime refuses to accept nationals who have criminal records in the U.S. or have been outside the country since before the migration agreements of January 2017, which has led to the deportation of Cubans to third countries, including some where they face the risk of torture or death.
According to official records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), more than 42,000 Cubans have final deportation orders, but the regime's reluctance to accept them back has complicated the expulsion processes.
Backed by a ruling from the Supreme Court, in recent months the Trump administration has deported illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes to African countries such as South Sudan, the Kingdom of Eswatini, and Rwanda, including at least four Cubans. Other citizens from the island have been sent to Mexico.
Meanwhile, deportation flights from the U.S. to Cuba continue on a monthly basis, in accordance with the existing migration agreements between the governments of both countries.
Last Thursday, 232 people were returned to the island in the tenth air operation since President Donald Trump took office. In total, 1,231 Cuban migrants have been deported from the U.S. to Cuba by air from January 23 to November 6, 2025.
In less than 10 months, the Trump administration has returned more Cubans to their country than President Joe Biden's government has in nearly two years (978), since deportation flights by ICE resumed in April 2023. This is a clear indication of the tightening of U.S. immigration policy in the past year.
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