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The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested another two Cubans with criminal records for serious offenses in operations conducted in recent days, where illegal immigrants deemed the "worst of the worst" foreign criminals were captured, authorities reported.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of undocumented immigrants convicted or charged with "atrocious crimes" in the U.S., including sexual assault of children under 13, aggravated assault against minors, rape, homicide, and drug trafficking.
One of the Cubans, identified as Sergio Jesús Villegas Dorta, was arrested by ICE agents last weekend, the DHS indicated in a statement on its official site.
Villegas has been sentenced for intentional homicide with a weapon, robbery, and aggravated assault with a weapon in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Meanwhile, this Monday Alberto Delgado Céspedes, also originally from Cuba, was arrested. He has a prior conviction for manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance (methamphetamine) in Lubbock County, Texas.
The DHS did not provide further details about the arrests of both Cubans, which are part of the federal offensive to remove foreign criminals from the streets of the United States that authorities deem a “threat to public safety.”
The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, emphasized that “70% of all ICE arrests involve undocumented foreigners who have been convicted or charged with a crime in the United States,” while criticizing claims by critics of President Donald Trump's administration regarding the detention and deportation of migrants solely due to their illegal status in the country.
In the past few weeks, there have been numerous arrests of Cuban citizens with serious criminal records, as part of the federal government's strategy aimed at identifying and expelling foreigners with records of particularly dangerous crimes.
However, the execution of the deportations of Cuban nationals remains complex and prolonged, due to the reluctance of the Havana government to accept citizens who committed crimes and served sentences in U.S. prisons, and who have remained outside the island since before the migration agreements of 2017.
Cubans in those cases, who have final deportation orders, have been sent to third countries, despite the risks involved.
Meanwhile, the last deportation flight from the U.S. to Cuba took place on November 20, with 139 returned irregular migrants.
With that air operation by ICE, the eleventh of the year, the total number of Cubans returned from the U.S. in 2025 has reached 1,370, a figure that exceeds the levels of the previous administration and reflects the tightening of U.S. immigration policy.
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