Madrid/Yuniel Báez Pedrera, first secretary of the Young Communist League in Havana for more than a decade, is today in Krome, the main detention center of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Florida. As published this Tuesday Martí Newsthe former official was arrested last week upon arrival in Miami from a trip to the Island.
According to government sources who confirmed the information to the Cuban-American newspaper, the immigration authorities detected inconsistencies in the application for permanent residence of Báez Pedrera, who is accused of hiding key information about his political past as leader of the Cuban regime, which violates US laws.
The former official will appear before an immigration judge in the coming weeks, he says Martí Newsand faces possible deportation. Last June, it was that media that revealed that Báez Pedrera had become entrepreneur in GainesvilleFlorida, where he founded the firm Pa’ La Familia LLC, dedicated to sending packages and food combos to Cuba, the sale of plane tickets and document processing.
In that report, Martí News He said that the former official, 46 years old, had entered United States territory on September 11, 2022 – the parole humanitarian – and who requested political asylum. Likewise, he explains that he tried to contact Báez Pedrera, without success, and that he later deleted his social networks.
Despite having requested refuge, the Cuban-American newspaper denounces, the former official made “several recent trips to Cuba.”
Despite having requested refuge, the Cuban-American newspaper denounces, the former official made “several recent trips to Cuba.” There is also no evidence that he had broken with the Cuban regime, which he served in the past. As leader of the UJC, the image of Báez Pedrera was recurrent in the state media.
His case joins that of other former Cuban public servants who, identified by US immigration authorities, were detained and, ultimately, expelled. The most recent, the former military Jorge Luis Vega GarcíaVeguita, repressor in maximum security prisons in Matanzas and Ciego de Ávila, deported to the Island on November 6.
Veguita thus followed the path of the former judge Melody González Pedrazaknown for her actions in the trials against protesters on July 11, 2021 and expelled after losing her asylum case.
Another case was Daniel Morejon Garciaresident in the United States and identified as a repressor by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, who was detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) and deported to the Island on May 30.
More than 100 Cubans linked to the regime appear in a list that Congressman Carlos Giménez handed over last March to the Department of Homeland Security. It is presumed that there was Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrerafriend of Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, The Crabarrested in his case in July by ICE in Las Vegas, where he had created a successful business.
