{"id":28027,"date":"2025-10-31T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28027\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:18:07","slug":"families-say-cuban-men-detained-at-miami-ice-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28027\/","title":{"rendered":"Families Say Cuban Men Detained at Miami ICE Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration advocates noticed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices<\/a> in South Florida were busier than usual this past weekend, following news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was preparing for an immigration enforcement operation in Miami<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On Friday, New Times obtained emails indicating that DHS was gearing up for a 287(g) operation<\/a> in Miami over the weekend. The emails revealed that a group of out-of-state deportation officers was headed to South Florida to assist Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Miami<\/a> with the operation. No other details were provided aside from instructions for officers to equip themselves, much like the details on the streets in other U.S. cities.<\/p>\n

While DHS never responded to\u00a0New Times\u00a0about the possibility of a large-scale immigration operation over the weekend, Yareliz Mendez-Zamora, a policy coordinator at the Florida Immigrant Coalition, noticed a flurry of activity at the ICE field office in Miramar on Saturday. She saw several unmarked vehicles and vans from the private prison contractor GEO Group, which typically transport detainees, coming and going. Mendez-Zamora said an agent videotaped them as they stood outside the facility, documenting the vehicles as they departed.<\/p>\n

\"UnmarkedOne of the unmarked vehicles that arrived at the ICE office in Miramar on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Photo by Yareliz Mendez-Zamora<\/p>\n

Mendez-Zamora tells New Times that at least five Cuban men were detained during their office visits on Saturday. She says she spoke with five families whose loved ones were taken into custody that day. The families told her that the five men went to the facility for what they thought were their check-in appointments with immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really sad to see just the families,\u201d Mendez-Zamora says. <\/p>\n

As part of President Donald Trump\u2019s large-scale immigration crackdown, his administration has sent several ICE agents to cities across the country to ramp up deportations, including \u201cPatriot 2.0\u201d<\/a> in Boston and \u201cMidway Blitz\u201d<\/a> in and around Chicago. Just this week, DHS announced that 1.6 million illegal immigrants have self-deported, and another 527,000 have been deported under Trump\u2019s second administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just the beginning. President Trump and Secretary Noem have jump-started an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years,\u201d DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cIn the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges and threats to law enforcement, DHS, ICE and CBP, have not just closed the border but made historic strides to carry out President Trump\u2019s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration advocates noticed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in South Florida were busier than usual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3120,2161,225,227,226,1841,99,2684],"class_list":{"0":"post-28027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-alligator-alcatraz","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-hialeah","11":"tag-hialeah-headlines","12":"tag-hialeah-news","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}