The daughter of a “hero’’ of Cuba’s communist revolution was just busted by ICE agents in Florida — for overstaying her tourist visa while working as a plastic surgeon, according to authorities and reports.
Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, 37 — the daughter of revered Cuban Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro — entered the US on a tourist visa in 2023 but then allegedly remained in the country illegally when it expired.
She was finally picked up by federal immigration agents last month while working at a Miami plastic-surgery clinic, said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and news outlets. The accused scofflaw reportedly trained in Cuba as a plastic surgeon.
Aguirreurreta’s father is considered a hero of the island nation’s communist revolution who served with Fidel and Raul Castro and held top government posts.
“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 arrived at Orlando International Airport on Nov. 21, 2023, on a B-2 tourist visa, then illegally remained in the US after it expired in May 2024, the Cuban exile news outlet Cibercuba reported.
ICE agents arrested her May 26 at the Miami clinic where she worked as an assistant, the outlet said.
The feds have not released further details of the arrest or the pending proceedings.
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
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