By Anett Rios and Alien Fernandez
HAVANA (Reuters) – Naydin Hernandez stopped on the watermark of the watercolor of the Havana Malecon Boulevard on Monday, in tears and praying after his dream of becoming a member of his daughter within the United States appeared to be completed.
“God is aware of that I miss,” Hernandez mentioned about his 21 -year -old daughter. “I need to see her.”
Hernandez had requested entry as a part of a “conditional freedom” program launched by former democratic president Joe Biden who allowed migrants with a sponsor to reside and work briefly within the United States.
But he mentioned that his hopes have been actually precipitated after the administration of republican president Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that he might have ended this system and revoke the short-term authorized standing of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguansi and Venezuelan within the United States.
A federal register warning undertaking referred to as the ineffective program and has declared that it has prompted the bounds of legality.
The announcement has sown confusion and crack between many residents of the island of the Caribbean Communist managed, struggling by way of an ongoing financial disaster and will get used to insurance policies for a very long time that favored their entry into the United States in comparison with different nationalities.
Over 700,000 Cubans entered the United States throughout the 4 years of the Biden administration, in line with customs safety and borders and nationwide safety counts. Of these, it’s not clear what number of are registered with the packages that present one other type of safety or authorized standing. But many of those packages, together with these designed to facilitate a path to citizenship for the Cubans, have been frozen by the Trump Administration in February and put within the revision part.
On Monday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez mentioned that the United States had tried the Cubans emigrate, then they coated them, calling it an “deed of merciless cynicism”.
The resident of Havana Dario Mendez, a 20 -year -old engineering pupil, mentioned that many knew that they had “sacrificed the whole lot” emigrate to the United States.
Forcing them to return now, he mentioned, it could be unfair.
“Just if you thought they have been occurring, they are saying, you’ll have to return,” mentioned Mendez.
The deputy international minister of Cuba instructed Reuters at first of this month that any enhance in deportations to Cuba ought to have been mentioned with the federal government of the island below agreements relationship again to many years in the past.
In the south of Florida, dwelling to a big American Cuban group, the fears that current arrivals might be expelled have pushed the republican consultant of the United States Maria Elvira Salazar to ask the Trump administration to rethink, blaming biden for having put seeking those that attempt to escape “failed communist regimes” in migratory limbo.
“Trump ought to acknowledge this actuality and never punish them for biden errors,” he mentioned on Saturday on X.
The White House didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Rodriguez’s submit.
(Report of Anett Rios and Alien Fernandez; Editing by Dave Sherwood and Rosalba O’Brien)
