Havana/“Without a final deportation order,” the United States expelled Alejandro Ramírez Díaz on March 19. The migrant remained on the island for 41 days, during which time Cuban lawyer Gladys Carredeguas presented legal appeals in which she exposed “serious flaws” in the process. Although he managed to return to the country with parolethe man now remains in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“So what is the status of this individual who initially entered through the border, was wrongly deported and then brought back?” he asks. Telemundo 51 the lawyer ICE has assured that it will try to resolve the case, but has not responded publicly to the requests for information presented by Carredeguas.
The lawyer specified Telemundo 51 that in October 2025 the Court dismissed his client’s case with form I-220A (parole order), which was delivered to him at the time of entering through the border. “There was no legal way to have him deported to Cuba, he never signed a deportation,” said the founder of Carredeguas Law Firm.
The defender also questioned the deportation, since in Ramírez’s case there was also a habeas corpus. “How are you going to ride a person with an expired passport? Legally it is incorrect,” he said.
To obtain the return by government decision, he specified, it was necessary to “proceed before the judge where the habeas corpus to inform you of the catastrophic error and request a injunction (precautionary measure), to demand that ICE return him immediately.”
Aimee Febles, mother of the Cuban migrant’s two children, told the same media that the family has experienced months of anguish and uncertainty due to the situation. “Alejandro is a person who has never had any problem, not with the police, not even a ticket. That is what impacts the most.”
Aimee Febles, mother of the Cuban migrant’s two children, told the same media that the family has experienced months of anguish and uncertainty due to the situation.
The process, he says, increases distrust in the ICE system. “We are seeing that they sometimes have no knowledge of what they are doing, or of the people who are calling.”
Last January the Cuban nurse Ivan Garcia Perezwho spent more than two months in prison, several of them in the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center, avoided deportation thanks to a habeas corpus and the payment of a bond of $1,500.
During his stay at Alligator Alcatraz, García denounced pressure from the authorities to accept “self-deportation.” In addition, he assured that they keep the migrants crowded in groups of 30.
A case similar to that of Alejandro Ramírez was presented at the beginning of May by immigration lawyer Elizabeth Amarán. In an interview with journalist Juan Manuel Cao, he stated that one of his clients, whose name he did not name, was returned to the United States. According to what he said, during the process, shipping to Ecuador was considered, but he ended up in Cuba.
Almarán recalled that a federal judge issued an order prohibiting the transfer of the Cuban while the case was still under review, however, the Department of Homeland Security continued with the process, which is considered a direct violation of the judicial decision. That was the mitigating factor for returning and the possibility of getting a parole.
