{"id":4425,"date":"2026-07-14T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:11:29","slug":"plane-hijacker-awaiting-deportation-freed-by-dem-appointed-activist-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"Plane hijacker awaiting deportation freed by Dem-appointed &#8216;activist&#8217; judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MIAMI \u2013\u2013 A criminal who hijacked a plane from Cuba to Florida in 2003 and served 20 years in prison had been in ICE custody awaiting deportation \u2014 till a Dem-appointed judge dumped him back on the street last week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4423\">Strait talk: Iran\u2019s Hormuz attacks must end the \u2018phony peace\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuban national Miakel Guerra Morales \u2014 who assaulted crew members during his terrifying midair hijacking \u2014 was detained by ICE in December, then ordered freed July 8 by Florida Judge John E. Steele, who said he\u2019d been in custody too long.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security on Monday railed against the Bill Clinton-nominated federal judge\u2019s decision to release Guerra Morales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis activist judge forced ICE to release a criminal illegal alien who was convicted and sentenced to 22 years for hijacking a plane back into American communities,\u201d DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis raged in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump\u2019s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the detention and removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4421\">Trump predicts US will become \u2018guardian angel\u2019 of Strait of Hormuz passage: \u2018We\u2019re taking over\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guerra Morales was among at least a dozen Cuban nationals who boarded a commuter plane in Nueva Gerona, Cuba, on March 19, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up assaulting its crew members and forcing the pilot to fly to Key West, according to the order for his release from ICE detention.<\/p>\n<p>Guerra Morales was eventually arrested by the US Marshals Service and convicted of aircraft piracy and conspiracy to interfere with a flight crew and sentenced to 22 years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>He appears to have served at least 20 years in prison, according to documents.<\/p>\n<p>ICE took him into custody in December 2025, but after seven months, Judge Steele ordered him released under supervision again, meaning agents must try to monitor him before they can deport him.<\/p>\n<p>ICE intended to deport Guerra Morales to Mexico, but he might end up directly in Cuba, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4419\">NYC housing crisis hits \u2018DefCon 1\u2019 as rents jump to more all-time highs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is believed to be living in Miami.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miakel Guerra Morales, a criminal who hijacked a plane from Cuba to Florida in 2003 and served 20 years in prison, had been in ICE custody awaiting deportation \u2014 till a Dem-appointed judge dumped him back on the street last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Plane hijacker awaiting deportation freed by Dem-appointed &#039;activist&#039; 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