Alleged Cuban influence operative, family in federal custody after Rubio revokes legal status

Three Cuban nationals, including a man the Trump administration says spent more than a decade working for a Cuban government influence organization in the United States, were apprehended by federal agents this week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated their legal status.The State Department announced Wednesday that Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, along with his wife and son, are in federal custody pending removal from the U.S.Lloga Dominguez spent more than a decade as a "foreign subversive" employed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP), the communist Cuban regime’s "premier influence and intelligence front group in the United States," according to the State Department.He is accused of continuing to maintain ties to the transnational communist subversion network throughout his time residing in the U.S."This is America First leadership in our region," a senior State Department official told Fox News Digital of the apprehensions.FEDS INVESTIGATE NONPROFITS AND LEADERS ALLEGEDLY COORDINATING WITH CUBA IN INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNSecretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with members of the media before departing from Bahrain international airport on June 25, 2026.
(Eric Lee / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)ICAP was sanctioned earlier this month.The group has denied any wrongdoing and says it's a civil society organization.The State Department maintains that ICAP "maintains an outsized footprint across the United States, trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship."FIRST ON FOX: POWERFUL HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS CHAIR THROWS HAMMER DOWN ON 'FOREIGN-ALIGNED INFLUENCE NETWORK'ICAP, which was founded in Fidel Castro in 1960 to spread Marxism all over the world, was accused of working with far-left groups in America to "export Cuba’s Communist revolution to the United States."The State Department describes ICA...