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A Cuban citizen, a member of the Bloods gang and convicted of multiple murders in the United States, was deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to an official report that did not specify to which country he was sent.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday the arrest of 7,000 gang members in the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, which is completed on January 20.
Among those detained was the Cuban Raúl Maceda Domínguez, identified as an illegal immigrant criminal and a member of Bloods (a gang founded in Los Angeles in 1972), with prior convictions for multiple homicides and theft.
According to the statement, ICE arrested him on October 27, 2025, and expelled him on January 6. However, it did not specify where Maceda was transferred.
It is possible that the Cuban has not been deported to Cuba, given the Havana regime's refusal to accept back nationals who have committed crimes and served prison sentences in the U.S. and who have remained outside the island since before the migration agreements of 2017.
However, he could have been taken to the Guantanamo Naval Base, to which the Trump administration resumed the deportation of Cuban migrants last December; or to a third country, a route that the federal government has used to expel undocumented immigrants with criminal records who are not accepted in their home countries.
Maceda was arrested in January 2005 after participating in a shooting during a quinceañera party in Florida, in which two teenagers were killed and a third was injured, according to a report from NBC News.
The Cuban, who was 21 years old at the time, was charged with first-degree murder and possession of firearms. CiberCuba has not been able to confirm what sentence he served for these offenses.
In 2022, he was arrested in Miami-Dade County on two counts of first-degree murder, third-degree armed robbery, three counts of shooting a deadly projectile, and possession of a firearm with a false identity, according to an arrest record.
The DHS presented Maceda today along with other alleged gang members from Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Vietnam, and Cambodia, who were captured by ICE. They stated that the 7,000 arrested had committed heinous crimes, such as murder, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and vehicle theft.
The federal agency assured that these arrests were made in compliance with President Trump's mandate to "restore security in the United States and carry out mass deportations."
The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, warned that ICE is acting swiftly to arrest even more gang members and “make the United States safe again.”
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