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An influential Haitian businessman and controversial political powerbroker is being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to immigration court records and sources familiar with the arrest. Pierre Reginald Boulos, an American-born entrepreneur and physician who exercised his influence through connections with top State Department officials and vocal criticism of Haitian presidents and politicians, is being held on immigration violations in Miami after being arrested by ICE agents at his home in Palm Beach. The arrest took place on Thursday.

To date, Boulos is the most high-profile Haitian to be detained by the Trump administration, which in recent months has tried to shorten the deportation protections and work permits for over a half million Haitians temporarily in the United States. The case is complicated by his uncertain immigration status. As a one-time Haitian presidential aspirant, he renounced his U.S. citizenship several years ago. Boulos, 69, is not yet listed in the ICE detention locator system due to a backlog of recent ICE arrests. But sources say he was at Krome North Service Processing Center on Saturday before being moved later that day to a federal detention center in Homestead.