Overview
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the U.S. legal status of Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez and federal agents took him, his wife, and his son into custody pending removal, a move the State Department announced Wednesday.
- U.S. officials say Lloga Dominguez worked for more than a decade for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People, or ICAP, and continued ties to a transnational influence network while in the United States.
- ICAP remains sanctioned under Executive Order 14404 after early June designations that block its U.S. property and bar most transactions with the group.
- The Department of Justice and the Treasury have opened developing probes into alleged coordination between ICAP and U.S. activists, with subpoenas issued to U.S. participants and questioning of figures linked to recent trips to Cuba.
- Reporting has tied roughly 145 U.S. nonprofits and activist groups to organizing with ICAP and to financier Neville Roy Singham, and the new enforcement step raises the prospect of more deportations, subpoenas, or sanctions tied to those ties.