ICE Detains 18 People Showing Up for Scheduled Immigration Appointments

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Mar 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM EDT | Updated Mar 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM EDT


Cubans attending immigration appointments in Florida are reportedly being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. At least 18 individuals have been taken into custody, the Miami Herald reported, despite previously being given somewhat special protections from removal proceedings.

"The administration is taking a take-no-prisoners approach to immigration enforcement where every person who could conceivably be deported is a priority," Mark Prada, an immigration attorney in Miami, told Newsweek Friday. "Whether you are undocumented, have a process pending for legal status, or pending an immigration court hearing, DHS has always had the authority to arrest and detain if one does not have a valid, unexpired legal status." Newsweek reached out to ICE via email for comment on Friday afternoon.

The Context

The shift is coming as a shock to a community that showed widespread support for President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a message of mass deportations of illegal immigrants, in particular those with known criminal histories. Since his return to the White House, ICE has increased its efforts to detain and deport those without legal status, but multiple reports in recent weeks have pointed to the target widening to those who may have assumed they were safe.

What To Know

South Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of Cubans, many of whom fled their home country and claimed immunity from immigration enforcement by having already arrived on United States soil. The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 meant a swifter pathway to a green card than afforded to other nationalities. However, some Cubans will have been placed in removal proceedings by ICE and released while their case is pending on an I-220A form. This doesn't offer any immigration status and means they must take a longer path to permanent residency, such as claiming asylum.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/cubans-arrested-ice-immigration-appointments-2048860

[Ollie Garkie]

1. This will...

.lessen incentive to show up to those appointments and make yourself legal. Duh.

[Vinca]

2. As I recall, the south Florida Cuban-Americans were all in for Trump. Wave bye-bye to your relatives.

[Bengus81]

6. Lil' Marco going to run down to help his brothers and sisters? LOL...NAH

FAFO going full blast. Those ICE fuckers don't care if your working to become legal,they just want numbers for their fuhrer.

[NotHardly]

11. Those ICE fuckers don't care if your working to become legal, they just want numbers for their Fuhrer.

[Safe as Milk]

10. Isn't there an old story about a duck and a scorpion?

Trump is who he is, and his worshippers will still suffer from his lack of humanity and beg for more. Go figure.
BTW. Trump is a Russian agent and is getting all of his direction from Putin, who is now managing TWO countries.

[orangecrush]

3. Yummy faces

On a roll with pickles.

Delicious!

[Joinfortmill]

4. FAFO

[ms liberty]

5. If we ever have another election, if this keeps up I think Florida might be in play

FAFO is hitting all it's karmic targets so far.

[Grins]

7. CUBANS arrested!! I love it.

And now it has come for them.

[TommyT139]

8. The logic here

...is that whichever group is newly in the "face-eaten" category, they depended on Trump et al. applying policies unequally...which of course he does, just not in ways that they assumed.

[sakabatou]

9. Nothing like a catch-22, right?

God, I hate this administration.

[Justice Brandeis]

12. Cubans brought this on themselves

I have no sympathy for them, their families or their community.

Their problem. Not mine.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

13. Are they interfering with the process?

The article isn't clear.

[CaptainTruth]

14. "take-no-prisoners approach"? More like a take-all-prisoners approach.

[TicketyBoo]

16. That was my thought, too,

but you beat me to posting it.

[Comfortably_Numb]

15. We are now going to have to evaluate "leopards' ate my face" stories to rate/note the most egregious examples. Sheer

numbers will become useless. From the article:

The shift is coming as a shock to a community that showed widespread support for President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a message of mass deportations of illegal immigrants, in particular those with known criminal histories. Since his return to the White House, ICE has increased its efforts to detain and deport those without legal status, but multiple reports in recent weeks have pointed to the target widening to those who may have assumed they were safe.

[ecstatic]

17. I really don't understand how they didn't see this coming

It's so confusing. Did they really believe that the only people who would be rounded up and tossed in detention camps would be violent criminals or even undocumented migrants?

Not a single American will be immune from this bullshit. If a power tripping cop doesn't like you, guess what? They don't have to beat you or kill you anymore. They can just toss you into a camp where you'll never be heard from again. Who needs due process? 🙄