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A Cuban national<\/a> convicted of hijacking an airplane in the wake of 9\/11 has been ordered released in Florida despite a standing order for his removal from the U.S.<\/p>\n

Maikel Guerra Morales and several others assaulted a flight crew and hijacked a Cuban commuter airplane in 2003 and forced it to fly more than 100 miles north to Monroe County, Florida<\/a>, where it eventually landed at Key West International Airport.<\/p>\n

Morales was arrested that evening after U.S. Air Force<\/a> jets scrambled from Homestead to intercept the plane, which originally took off from Nuevo Gerona on Cuba\u2019s Isle of Youth.<\/p>\n

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Since then, he has been in U.S. custody, including for a 22-year sentence for “aircraft piracy.”<\/p>\n

A federal immigration judge issued an order of removal<\/a> against Morales in 2023, and he ultimately was transferred to ICE custody after completing his prison sentence in 2025.<\/p>\n

But, Clinton-appointed Judge John Steele in Fort Myers ruled last week that Morales must be released, citing a Supreme Court ruling involving foreign nationals languishing in custody with no country to take them back.<\/p>\n

DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called Morales\u2019 case “yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart<\/a> President Trump\u2019s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.”<\/p>\n

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin<\/a>, DHS will continue to fight for the detention and removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country,” Bis said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Steele wrote that federal officials indicated their intention to deport him to Mexico<\/a>, but instead found that there is no evidence of a “a significant likelihood that Guerra Morales will be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future.”<\/p>\n

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“Therefore, he is entitled to release from detention under \u2018Zadvydas\u2019, but he remains subject to the terms of an order of supervision,” Steele wrote<\/a> \u2013 relying on the case of Kestutis Zadvydas, an ethnic Lithuanian lawful permanent U.S. resident born in a German displaced-persons camp who had been ordered deported in 1994 due to a criminal record but had no receptive country to return to.<\/p>\n

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An Associated Press report<\/a> following the hijackers\u2019 2003 arrests in Key West said Cuban officials demanded<\/a> the U.S. return the plane and all occupants, including those charged with piracy. Morales and the other suspects claimed at the time they hijacked the plane “for freedom.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/illegal-alien-pirate-who-hijacked-plane-us-freed-clinton-appointed-judge <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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