An immigration judge in Nebraska has reportedly ordered the deportation of Digsan García Rodríguez, a former lieutenant of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) of Cuba and former sector chief in the Santa Fe neighborhood, Playa municipality, Havana, following documented complaints from victims who accuse him of abuse of power and repression on the Island.
The order was issued on June 9 and reported by Cuban exile media on June 10 and 11.
The immigration court denied him all legal protection.
Their destination is not Cuba, but Guatemala, due to an agreement that allows this Central American country to receive migrants expelled from the United States when their countries of origin refuse to accept them.
Who is Digsan García Rodríguez?
García Rodríguez was part of the police structure of the Cuban regime in Santa Fe, a coastal area west of Havana, for many years.
As the head of the sector of the PNR, I had direct control over complaints, local files, community surveillance, and coordination with state security agencies.
His name appears in the public database of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba under the category "VIOLENT."
Alexander Otaola and the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP) publicly identified him in 2023, when he had just arrived in U.S. territory.
The accusations: False files and two years in prison
The most documented accusation comes from Kamila García, who testified before the authorities that the former officer sexually harassed her and, upon being rejected, fabricated a record against her.
According to his account, “García Rodríguez sexually harassed her, and when he failed to achieve his goal, he lied in the report claiming that she had stolen clothes hung out by her neighbors.”
With that false documentation, Kamila García was prosecuted under the concept of "predelinquent dangerousness," a mechanism of the Cuban judicial system that allowed for the imprisonment of individuals before committing a crime, based on an alleged propensity to offend.
The result was his imprisonment for two years.
Kamila García also stated that "many other women were victims of his sexual harassment," which broadens the scope of the allegations beyond her personal case.
The complaint that reached Congress
Upon arriving in the United States, García Rodríguez reportedly kept a low profile, but exile organizations began to track down former Cuban officials accused of repression who had entered the country concealing their history.
His name was added to a list submitted by Cuban-American Congressman Carlos A. Giménez to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In March 2025, Giménez had presented the report "Cuban Repressors in the United States of America" with 100 names of Cuban citizens identified for human rights violations.
The FHRC has identified approximately 1,100 Cuban repressors in total, of which 117 are reported to have entered the United States in the past year through fraudulent claims.
A precedent in the fight against impunity
This case is not the first of its kind.
The former Cuban judge Juana Orquídea Acanda Rodríguez was deported in April 2025 after concealing her membership in the Communist Party of Cuba, and the former intelligence officer Tomás Emilio Hernández Cruz was arrested in March 2025 in West Park, Florida for immigration fraud.
Alexander Otaola explicitly thanked Congressman Giménez and Senator Marco Rubio for voicing the complaints that led to the expulsion order.
"This case demonstrates that complaints are effective, that documenting repression has consequences, and that repressors cannot hide among their victims in exile," Otaola stated upon announcing the news, concluding with a slogan that encapsulates the sentiments of the exile:
"Neither forgetfulness nor impunity. The oppressors are not welcome in the land of freedom."
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