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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed on Thursday the detention of a Cuban citizen in the city of Tampa, Florida.
“A Cuban citizen with an outstanding arrest warrant visited our Tampa office. We contacted local law enforcement, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested him,” reported the agency in a statement released on its official Facebook account.
The detention of the Cuban was due to a clear reason for USCIS: having a pending deportation order. They did not disclose the identity of this person or other details of their case.
This decision is part of a series of coordinated operations among federal, state, and local agencies to strengthen the enforcement of immigration laws in the country.
On that same day, four other Cuban citizens, convicted of sexual offenses and with deportation orders that have been active for years, were arrested in Palm Beach County.
"We played a key role in the arrest of four convicted sex offenders in Palm Beach County, Florida. All were Cuban, and their deportation from the country had been ordered years ago," USCIS specified, without revealing the identities of the detainees or the details of their criminal backgrounds.
The statement also did not clarify why the individuals failed to comply with the deportation orders or how long they had been in effect, although it warned that "their time in the United States has come to an end."
The deportations of these migrants to Cuba face obstacles due to the Havana regime's refusal to accept nationals who served sentences in U.S. prisons and left the country before the 2017 migration agreements.
In light of this situation, some Cubans with final deportation orders have been transferred to third countries, despite not having family or legal ties to them.
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