ICE detains Alina Rosales, daughter of Cuban General Ulises Rosales del Toro, in Florida

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) publicly confirmed this June 21, 2026 the arrest of Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, daughter of the historic Cuban general Ulises Rosales del Toro, in Florida. According to the statement published on the official account @ICEgov, the woman entered the country in 2023 with a tourist visa valid until May 20, 2024 and did not obtain permission to stay. She is charged with nonimmigrant overstay and awaits a hearing before an immigration judge.

«ICE arrested Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, daughter of historic Cuban general Ulises Rosales del Toro, in Florida. Aguirreurreta entered the country in 2023 on a tourist visa, which was valid through May 20, 2024, and she did not obtain permission to stay in the country. She's charged as a nonimmigrant overstay, and awaits a hearing before an immigration judge.»

What ICE says and what DHS and the media had previously confirmed

ICE's tweet is the first public and direct confirmation of the agency on networks about this case. Days before, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had informed Martí Noticias and Telemundo 51 that Rosales Aguirreurreta was arrested on May 26, 2026by ICE agents in Miami and remained in federal custody. The spokesperson specified that he entered with a B-2 visa on November 21, 2023 through the Orlando International Airport and that he did not leave the country within the authorized period.

Diario Libre, citing EFE, indicated that the ICE electronic system showed the detainee at the Broward Transition Center, in Pompano Beach. UPI noted that ICE had not publicly revealed the exact date of the hearing or all the details of the detention center until the announcement in X.

Who is Ulises Rosales del Toro

Ulises Rosales del Toro is one of the historical figures of the Cuban military and political apparatus. He fought in the Sierra Maestra, was chief of the General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Minister of Sugar, Minister of Agriculture and Vice President of the Council of Ministers between 2009 and 2019. A member of the so-called Castro "old guard", he remained close to Fidel and Raúl Castro and was part of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The context: from the investigation of Martí Noticias to the arrest

The case did not arise out of nowhere. In February 2026, the journalist Mario J. Pentón published in Martí Noticias an investigation into the general's children. According to that report, Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta—a doctor in Cuba—had arrived in the United States in 2023 with a B1/B2 visa issued in Havana and was residing in Miami while she tried to regularize her immigration status.

Telemundo 51 exclusively revealed that she was detained in her workplace, a plastic surgery clinic in Miami. Lawyer Avelino González – who said he knew about the case but did not represent her – stated that in Cuba she worked as a plastic surgeon and that in Florida she worked as an assistant. He also denounced harsh conditions at the temporary custody center and suggested that authorities could be pushing for self-deportation; Those claims have not been confirmed by ICE.

A pattern: scrutiny of relatives of the Cuban elite

The detention is part of a immigration hardening towards people linked to senior officials of the Cuban regime. Weeks before, ICE arrested Adys Lastres Morera, sister of General Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera, president of the military conglomerate GAESA—an entity sanctioned by Washington. After that case, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that "there will be no place on Earth—and much less in our country—where foreign citizens who threaten our national security can live in luxury."

The Cuban-American congressman Mario Díaz-Balart reacted to the case of Alina Rosales by stating that "the henchmen of the Castro regime and its accomplices have no place in the United States," according to Telemundo 51. Univision 23 consulted immigration lawyer José Guerrero, who explained that a person who had lied in their visa application or in immigration procedures could face detention and deportation proceedings —although in the ICE statement the explicit charge is overstay, not document fraud.

What's next

ICE indicated in its post that it will release more information "if it becomes publicly available." For now, Rosales Aguirreurreta faces immigration due process with a pending hearing before an immigration judge. The DHS reiterated to media outlets such as Martí Noticias that "every undocumented foreigner receives due process."

The announcement in