The South Florida artistic community is rallying to support two prominent Cuban musicians currently sitting in federal holding facilities after being abruptly detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n
The detentions hit 39-year-old Latin Grammy-winning percussionist Degnis Bofill and 30-year-old pianist Andy Garc\u00eda Palacios. Agents apprehended Garc\u00eda Palacios on August 15 during what was supposed to be a routine immigration check-in at an office in Los Angeles. Just four days later on August 19, federal officers took Bofill into custody at Miami International Airport.<\/p>\n
Immigration attorneys have confirmed that both men entered the United States entirely legally and have active, pending asylum claims in the system.<\/p>\n
The surprise arrests have sparked widespread outrage across the music industry. Legendary Cuban jazz pioneer Chucho Vald\u00e9s took to social media to publicly plead for their immediate release, expressing profound sadness over the detention of the young virtuosos.<\/p>\n
In response to the mounting legal bills, grassroots fundraising campaigns have exploded online. Separate GoFundMe<\/a> initiatives launched by the musicians’ families<\/a> have combined to raise nearly $100,000 in a matter of days to fund an aggressive defense strategy. Local advocacy groups note that the high-profile arrests mirror an ongoing regional sweep by federal authorities; immigration data indicates that the processing and detention of Cuban nationals have dramatically risen over the past several months, forcing families and legal teams to move rapidly to halt deportation orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Florida artistic community is rallying to support two prominent Cuban musicians currently sitting in federal holding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,225,227,226,84996,115,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-380590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380590","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=380590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}