Cuba’s communist Castro regime, for the primary time in many years, accepted a mass deportation flight containing a minimum of six Cuban nationals convicted of significant crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.
The Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba defined on Thursday that, for many years, the Castro regime refused to just accept Cubans convicted of grave legal offenses who have been deported from america, resulting in the deportees being despatched to 3rd nations. At the very least 4 such Cubans have been deported to Africa throughout 2025 in mild of the Cuban regime’s refusal to obtain the deportees at their very own dwelling nation.
ICE defined in a social media publish that the Castro regime has maintained a reluctant stance in accepting mass deportation flights of Cubans however that, beneath the administration of President Donald Trump, stated flights are occurring in report numbers. The primary Cuba-bound mass deportation flight of 2026 occurred on February 9 and noticed the repatriation of 170 Cuban nationals, a few of which had been convicted of homicide, kidnapping, rape, drug trafficking and different offenses — ending a many years’ lengthy streak of continued refusal by the nation’s communist authorities.
ICE offered particulars of the six deported convicted males in a sequence of follow-up posts. One of many males recognized by ICE is Yondeivis Wong Den-Hernandez, who was convicted of second-degree homicide in Florida and aiding and abetting improper entry by an alien in Texas. The second deported man was recognized as Raul Duquenzne-Batista, a member of the Los Habaneros gang who was convicted in Kansas of aggravated assault, rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated housebreaking, and legal use of weapons. ICE detailed that, along with his a number of convictions, Duquenzne-Batista admitted to serving 20 years in jail in Cuba for theft and breaking and getting into.
ICE defined that one other Cuban man recognized as Alexander Padron-Marten was arrested at giant in a focused operation in Philadelphia. The person had been convicted of managed substance trafficking. ICE additionally listed Orlando Sanchez-Sarria, a person who, after receiving a grand theft conviction within the sanctuary metropolis of Los Angeles, moved to Philadelphia to “proceed preying on law-abiding residents.” Sanchez-Sarria was additionally convicted of managed substance trafficking, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possessing a firearm by a convict, receiving stolen property, use of a firearm throughout a drug trafficking crime.
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A fifth Cuban deportee, convicted of rape and possessing an altered driver’s license, was recognized by ICE as Miguel Ramon Caveda-Perez. ICE officers in St. Paul safely took custody of the Cuban nationwide from the South Dakota State Penitentiary by way of an immigration detainer. Lastly, ICE listed Gaully Quintana Martinez, a person convicted of aggravated battery with a harmful weapon, who was taken into custody after he served his sentence in Louisiana’s Morehouse Parish Correctional Middle.
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