Miami/A total of 32 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Florida in several operations of the customs immigration and control service (ICE) and other federal agencies, on January 27 and 28. Among those arrested in those raids, made in Palm Beach County, there is an unspecified number of nationals of Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Nicaragua.
In a communication from the immigration authoritiesdata from four of the detainees who committed some crime are detailed, including a 24 -year -old Cuban convicted of fraud, absence, theft and violation of probation.
In addition, the cases of a 30 -year -old Venezuelan with crimes of resistance to authority, possession of drugs and theft are exposed; a Haitian of 44 condemned for aggression, possession of drugs and prostitution; and a 25 -year -old Guatemalan punished for illegal re -entry, cocaine possession and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The four are waiting for deportation, while the remaining 28 are pending a hearing with an immigration judge to resolve if they will also be returned to their countries of origin.
The four are waiting for deportation, while the remaining 28 are pending a hearing with an immigration judge to resolve if they will also be returned
In addition, Florida’s road patrol (FHP) said Monday in its X account that, in a joint operation with federal agents carried out in Tallahassee, it ended the arrest of “alleged members of the Aragua train” – a transnational band of Venezuelan origin – for alleged conspiracy for smuggling weapons, affiliation to criminal gangs and illegal entry to the US.
In the migratory operations, different security forces are participating, as the Governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, had already warned. This Monday, in social networks, the ICE checked the cooperation that the FHP, the Office of National Security Investigations (HSI), the Office of Detention and Deportation (ERO), the Department of National Security (DHS) and the Drug Control Administration (DEA).
On January 31, the Argentine newspaper The nation He published a note in which relatives of several migrants arrested in Delray Beach (Palm Beach) on the 27th denounced “deception” by the ICE agents. “They took them by surprise and took them without any reason,” denounced a relative of one of the detainees. Some of those arrests would have produced, according to the testimonies, when those affected came to a routine appointment in the Immigration Supervision Office.
The premium of one of the detainees told Telemundo that her relative was summoned at 8 in the morning for routine control and had no longer returned. “He is licensed, he has a Social Security card, he was given the right documentation. All he had to do was register with weekly immigration, through a phone call, and continue to meet. Today was a normal check, ”he said to the environment.
“He is licensed, he has a Social Security card, he was given the right documentation. All I had to do was register with weekly immigration “
The interviewee said that, hours later, after losing contact with him, she went to look for him to the office and learned that she was stopped. “Without any reason. My cousin is not a criminal, he has never been in jail, he is not doing anything wrong, ”he said.
The mother of a Venezuelan who allegedly was arrested in similar circumstances said they fear deportation, because they no longer have family in the country. “They told him to come at 2 pm because they needed to fix something on his phone for the application and supervise him. And yes, that was a lie, ”he denounced. The 30 -year -old arrested since the six in the United States.
The note recounts the cases of several more people who were apparently cited for usual controls and ended up detained.
Garrett Ripa, an interim deputy director of the Office of Detention and Deportation in Miami, defended himself from criticism and assured that the work currently carried out by agents is the same as always “with the difference that they work together with more federal agencies.” In addition, he categorically stated that “they only stop people with a final deportation order.”
