ICE Arrested the Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary General for Visa Overstay. A Separate Scandal Is Running Through the Same Miami Clinics.

The Arrest

Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, 37, entered the United States on November 21, 2023, through Orlando International Airport on a B-2 tourist visa, according to ICE. That visa expired May 20, 2024. She did not regularize her immigration status.

On May 26, 2026, ICE agents arrested her at a Miami plastic surgery clinic where she was working as an assistant. She is now held at the Broward Transition Center in Pompano Beach, Florida, per CiberCuba, which has tracked the case closely. ICE posted its explanation on X, classifying her as a "nonimmigrant overstay" awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.

ICE has said it will release more information as it becomes publicly available. No additional charges beyond the immigration violation have been announced, and no criminal charges related to medical practice have been filed against her.

Who Her Father Is

The political context here is real. Her father, General Ulises Rosales del Toro, is not some low-level Cuban official. He served as Chief of the General Staff of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1981 to 1997, commanded troops during Cuba's military intervention in Angola, and later served as Minister of Sugar, Minister of Agriculture, and Vice President of the Council of Ministers, according to CiberCuba. He holds the title Hero of the Republic of Cuba and served on the Political Bureau of the Communist Party until 2011.

A February 2026 investigation by Martí Noticias found that while Rosales del Toro accumulated those posts at the top of the regime, his family lived with privileges unavailable to ordinary Cubans: frequent international travel, exclusive residences, and access to elite businesses. His other daughter, Perla Rosa Rosales Aguirreurreta, took over management of Habaguanex S.A., a Cuban state tourism and heritage company, in 2017.

The Trump administration has specifically targeted relatives of senior Cuban regime figures living in the United States. This arrest fits that pattern.

The Strongest Counterargument

Attorney Avelino González raised concerns about Alina's detention conditions in an interview on Telemundo 51's "Encuentro Virtual" program. He described detainees sleeping on the floor, receiving the same soup for lunch and dinner, and being denied medications. He also warned that authorities may be pressuring her to accept voluntary deportation. Those allegations are serious and unproven in these sources, but they deserve a straight answer from ICE. Detention conditions are a legitimate oversight question regardless of who the detainee's father is.

Her training as a plastic surgeon in Cuba is also relevant. Working as a clinic assistant is not the same as performing unlicensed surgery. The sources confirm she was employed in an assistant capacity, and nothing in the sourced material establishes that she performed medical procedures on patients in the United States.

A Separate and Uglier Problem in the Same Miami Clinic World

While Alina's case is immigration enforcement, two other cases from the same corner of Miami's plastic surgery industry involve actual patient harm.

In March 2025, Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office detectives arrested Wilson Muñoz Suárez, 60, a Venezuelan national who allegedly presented himself as a licensed cosmetic surgeon on social media, performed surgical procedures on patients, and then became unreachable when a victim had complications. The Florida Department of Health confirmed to investigators that Muñoz Suárez held no medical license in Florida, according to the Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office press release from March 27, 2025. He was charged with practicing medicine without a license, battery on an elderly person, domestic battery, and resisting without violence.

Weeks later, in April 2025, Miami-Dade deputies arrested Manuel Lazzaro, 58, another Venezuelan national who listed himself on the American Society of Plastic Surgeons website as "Manuel Lazzaro, MD" and described himself on Instagram as a "Venezuelan certified Plastic Surgeon," according to Local 10 News. He was also not in Florida's medical license database. Prosecutor Nessa Eth told Judge Mindy Glazer that Lazzaro performed surgery on a victim who "suffered the loss of her entire nipple" after her breasts became infected and Lazzaro ignored her complaints. Eth said Lazzaro admitted to conducting many surgeries without a license.

Both Muñoz Suárez and Lazzaro were listed as "surgical assistant" in their arrest reports. Both are connected to the same surgery center: New World Medical & Mystic Cosmetic Surgery at 2020 SW First St. in Little Havana, which was boarded up when Local 10 visited. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons removed Lazzaro's listing from its website after Local 10 reported his arrest.

What These Cases Actually Share

Three people arrested in Miami's plastic surgery clinics. Very different legal situations.

Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta: an immigration violation, working as an assistant, no medical charges. Muñoz Suárez and Lazzaro: criminal charges, alleged victims with documented injuries, the same facility.

The NY Post's framing bundles all of this into a single immigration enforcement story. The framing captures the immigration facts correctly, but it does not mention Muñoz Suárez or Lazzaro at all, missing the separate patient-safety scandal running through that same clinic ecosystem.

As of June 21, 2026, it remains unclear whether Florida health regulators or federal authorities have examined the full network of clinics and recruiters who allegedly funneled patients to unlicensed practitioners, given that Lazzaro's arrest report references an unnamed co-defendant who steered the victim to him through Instagram.