Related videos:
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Miami arrested two Cuban citizens with serious criminal records, as part of its operations to remove immigrants deemed a “threat to public safety” from the communities.
This involves Carlos Alberto Guevara Fernández, 50 years old, and Roberto Manresa Hernández, both classified by the agency as sex offenders and criminal foreigners.
According to the report, Carlos Alberto Guevara Fernández was arrested on November 14 by the ICE office in Miami. The agency identifies him as a Cuban "sexual predator," previously convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, child abuse, and sexual assault.
His capture is part of a strategy aimed at locating immigrants with a history of serious crimes and placing them in custody to initiate or continue deportation processes.
In the case of Roberto Manresa Hernández, ICE describes him as a “convicted illegal foreign criminal and offender.”
He was arrested by agents from the Miami office in Hialeah, Florida, and transferred to the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, where he remains awaiting deportation.
The agency explicitly thanked its officers for their "hard work" in this operation and presented it as part of its mission to "defend the homeland" by expelling foreign criminals.
ICE framed these arrests within a series of recent arrests of Cuban citizens with serious criminal backgrounds, emphasizing that their priority is to "locate and detain foreigners deemed a threat to public safety."
Among the recent cases mentioned by the agency is that of Allen Gómez, a 57-year-old Cuban, also classified as a "sexual predator" and foreign offender, with a history of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and for failing to register as a sex offender.
In the same context, ICE reported the arrest of Rolquis Torres Ricardo, another Cuban citizen with a history of child sexual abuse and domestic violence, whom it described as a "convicted criminal."
He was arrested at his home, with the support of state authorities, and transferred to Alligator Alcatraz, where he remains in custody awaiting a deportation flight.
Jorge Muñiz García was also captured, another Cuban held in the same center, with an extensive criminal record that includes attempted homicide, robbery with violence, and breaking and entering.
According to information from ICE, these cases illustrate the grouped strategy under the campaign “The Worst of the Worst,” originally initiated during the Donald Trump administration and aimed at identifying and deporting foreigners with particularly serious criminal backgrounds.
However, the execution of deportations of Cuban nationals remains complex and prolonged, due to the reluctance of the Havana government to accept citizens with a criminal record or those who left the island prior to the 2017 migration agreements.
The report notes that, in some cases, Cubans with final deportation orders have been sent to third countries, despite the risks this entails.
The latest deportation flight to Cuba mentioned took place on November 6, returning 232 irregular migrants in the tenth air operation of the year.
According to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), three of those repatriated individuals are under investigation for alleged crimes committed before leaving the island.
With this operation, the total number of Cubans returned from the U.S. in 2025 rises to 1,231 people, a figure that —the report emphasizes— exceeds the levels of the previous administration and reflects the tightening of U.S. immigration policy.
In that context, the arrests of Carlos Alberto Guevara Fernández and Roberto Manresa Hernández in Miami represent another link in a broader strategy by ICE to increase raids and expulsions of immigrants with criminal convictions, focusing on those cases that the agency deems to pose a greater danger to communities.
Filed under: