Yasmani Noel Moreno de Armas, a 31-year-old Cuban whose parents live in Hialeah, was detained by ICE officers without explanation on May 11, 2025 while spending a day in West Palm Beach. He believed he would be sent to Cuba and only realized he was headed to Africa more than two hours into a 22-hour deportation flight that landed in Bangui, Central African Republic on August 1. He is now confined at a guarded apartment complex in Bangui, suffering stomach problems and allergies, without identification documents or legal status. 'They brought us here illegally,' he said; his parents 'went crazy, crying and yelling' when he called to tell them where he was.