The daughter of a prominent figure from Cuba’s communist revolution has been arrested by ICE agents in Florida after allegedly overstaying a tourist visa while working in the cosmetic surgery field, authorities and reports said.
Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, 37, whose father is former Cuban Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro, entered the United States in 2023 on a tourist visa but is accused of remaining in the country unlawfully after it expired.
Federal immigration officers took her into custody last month at a Miami plastic surgery clinic where she had been working, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and media reports. Aguirreurreta reportedly trained in Cuba as a plastic surgeon.
Her father is widely regarded in Cuba as a revolutionary veteran who served alongside Fidel and Raul Castro and later held senior positions in the government.
“She’s charged as a nonimmigrant overstay, and awaits a hearing before an immigration judge” ICE wrote on X on Saturday. “ICE will disclose more information as it becomes publicly available.”
Aguirreurreta landed at Orlando International Airport on Nov. 21, 2023, with a B-2 tourist visa, then remained in the US after the visa expired in May 2024, the Cuban exile news outlet Cibercuba reported.
ICE agents arrested her on May 26 at the Miami clinic where she was employed as an assistant, the outlet reported.
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Federal officials have not provided additional information about the arrest or the immigration case now pending against her.
Aguirreurreta’s 84-year-old dad has long been hailed as a hero in Cuba and fought alongside the Castro brothers in the Sierra Maestra mountains during the revolution in the late 1950s, Cibercuba said.
Rosales del Toro led troops during Cuba’s foray in Angola in the 1970s and served as chief of the general staff of the country’s Revolutionary Armed Forces and holds the title as a “Hero of the Republic of Cuba.”
His past posts include minister of agriculture and sugar — a prominent position overseeing the country’s historically vital cash crop — and served in the political bureau of the Cuban Communist Party.
President Trump has overseen a crackdown on illegal immigrants since returning to the White House, including targeting relatives of high-ranking Cuban officials.
Aguirreurreta’s arrest took place just days after Adys Lastres Morera, the sister of Cuban Brigadier Gen. Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera, president of GAESA, a secretive military-run conglomerate that controls much of the island’s economy, was arrested and transferred to an ICE facility in Louisiana.
Morera’s arrest was widely reported by news media but was not confirmed by the feds.
With Post wires
