Two Cuban citizens who have committed serious crimes in the United States were arrested in the last few hours by immigration agents in the states of Florida and New Mexico, authorities reported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Julio Miguel González, an undocumented immigrant from Cuba, on Sunday. He has a criminal record for intentional homicide in Miami, Florida.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) named González among the worst illegal foreign criminals in the country, according to a statement released on Monday, in which it confirmed that he and other migrants with convictions or charges for serious crimes will be expelled from the U.S.
Meanwhile, agents of the Border Patrol (USBP) in Sunland Park, New Mexico, apprehended another Cuban, registered as a sex offender, during an operation that resulted in the arrest of 10 undocumented migrants.
The USBP in the El Paso Sector reported this Tuesday, in a post on social media X, that agents apprehended the immigrants after being alerted by the Department of Defense, and stated that all will be processed for deportation.
The authorities did not reveal the identity of the Cuban detained in this group nor provide details about the crimes he committed.
These cases add to the recent arrests of undocumented Cuban immigrants, publicly presented by U.S. authorities as examples of the tightening of immigration actions against foreigners with a criminal background.
More than 1,150 Cuban citizens are among those detained by ICE in its federal campaign "Worst of the Worst," which the DHS presents as part of its effort to capture and deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records, whom they consider a threat to the safety of Americans.
The Trump administration has raised the stakes even further in its aggressive campaign against immigration, which is not only focused on the arrest and deportation of foreign criminals but also targets individuals at various stages of their immigration processes who have not committed any crimes.
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