The federal entity did not specify where the Cuban would be deported, whose name was not revealed either.
Miami, United States. – The Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) advertisement The deportation of a Cuban citizen previously sentenced for traffic of people, without detailing which country will be transferred. In an X publication, the agency reported that the man “was previously convicted of people trafficking in 2024” after “trying to be temporarily trafficked to 29 people, including children, at the rear of a trailer.”
CBP added that “Border Patrol Agents, with Jeffrey Dinise [jefe de la Patrulla Fronteriza del Sector Miami]they arrested him and is being expelled from our country. “He also remarked:” We will not tolerate people traffickers. “
CBP did not specify the destination of deportation. However, recently documented cases show that Washington has resorted to “third countries” when the Cuban regime refuses to receive its nationals with criminal history. On July 16, the Department of National Security (DHS) executed a flight to the Kingdom of Esuatini with several foreigners, including a Cuban with serious convictions, which, according to US authorities, the island’s regime refused to receive.
“Today, the DHS made a deportation flight to a third country to Esuatini,” The agency then reported. “These illegal criminal foreigners are so exceptionally barbarian that their countries of origin refused to accept them back.”
After that operation, the DHS also stated: “Under the leadership of Secretary Noem and President Trump, we are withdrawing these convicted criminals from the American soil, so that they can never harm another American victim.”
The Esuatini government acknowledged “generalized concern” for the reception of deportees. “The five inmates are currently housed in our penitentiary facilities, in isolated units, where other similar criminals are found. The nation is sure that these inmates do not imply any threat to the country or their citizens,” said spokesman Thabile Mdluli, cited by BBC.
Before that flight to Esuatini, Washington had already sent deported to South Sudan, in an operation that included two Cubans –Enrique Arias-Hierro and José Manuel Rodríguez-Quiñones-although “a federal judge had issued an emergency order to suspend deportation”. In that context, the DHS held: “We are withdrawing these convicted criminals from the American soil, so that they can never harm another American victim” and said that “no country on earth wanted to accept them, because their crimes are so monstrous and barbarians that are unique.”
Human Rights Organizations have warned about legal and humanitarian risks of these deportations to third countries, especially where there are precarious judicial or penitentiary systems and the immigration status of those expelled when arriving is not clear.
Officials of the current US administration have also defended the practice. The interim director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said: “As a career officer in ICE, I have been dealing with recalcitrant countries who refuse to accept their nationals, forcing us to free us in the US in the US to repeat and violent criminals.”
Meanwhile, from the White House, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt declared: “President Trump is taking out of illegal foreign murderers, rapists, rapists and pedophiles. It doesn’t matter how much this bothers Democrats: we will continue to deport these monsters to keep Americans safe.”
