“The worst is yet to come,” warns the mother of Emir Rodríguez, who was deported by the United States this Wednesday along with 65 other Cubans. “I’m worried that they come to my house, want to take him away to repress him and mistreat him physically and psychologically and then something worse happens,” says this woman from Matanzas. during an interview for the television channel American Telemundo 51.
Rodríguez, just 19 years old, is one of the 36 rafters returned by the US government on the second flight that left South Florida for Havana (the first was on April 24 with 123 migrants). The young man thought he had achieved the American dream when he disembarked in January, but since he was taken into custody by Border Patrol, he has been through various detention centers.
Rodriguez’s future is uncertain. His mother laments the current situation and knows that “his son’s professional life has been cut short” since he fled the Island on a raft. “He already lost the university degree that he applied for before leaving for the United States,” explains the woman, “he no longer has the right because he has an illegal exit and it appears as a record.”
The future of Emir Rodríguez is uncertain. His mother regrets the current situation and knows that “his son’s professional life has been cut short” since he fled the island on a raft
Emir will also not be able, if he wishes, to work in any state company. “The first requirement they ask of you is that you have to have completed military service,” the woman mentions in a video. Rodríguez “did not perform the service nor will he comply because he does not agree.”
On the other hand, Dachel Caballero, a Cuban with an I-220B who lost his political asylum case before the immigration authorities, was taken to the Miami airport on Wednesday for deportation, but was returned at the last minute.
Caballero, who had been released in October along with 36 other Cubans with an I-220B, fears being returned to the island: “I know it would be very hard for me to be separated from my family.”
His wife, Yudisleidy Molina, led a protest outside the Krome Detention Center last Tuesday to demand Caballero’s release. In the event that they put him on a flight, she warned, that she would seek to return to Cuba “with the child, it does not seem right to me that I stay here and he stays there,” she says, referring to the son they have in common.
Dachel Caballero, a Cuban with an I-220B who lost his political asylum case before the immigration authorities, was taken to the Miami airport on Wednesday for deportation, but was returned at the last minute.
This Thursday, Caballero was released, but he is required to wear an electronic monitor on his ankle and was required to report regularly to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices.
In a statement made public this Wednesday, ICE indicated that it continues with the safe, orderly and humane processing of migrants, including “the expeditious processing and removal of persons without a legal basis to remain in the United States.”
Since the beginning of 2023, the Joe Biden Administration has returned 2,708 people to the Island through 40 different operations by the US Coast Guard and two by air.
The Ministry of the Interior stated that the total number rises to 3,646 deported Cubans and 69 operations if those returned by Mexico, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas are considered.
The US Government tightened measures to try to counteract the flow of migration with the end of Title 42. As of this Thursday, migrants who cross illegally are included in the Title 8 expulsion procedure and will be repatriated in matter of days As they reiterated, they will not be able to enter the US in five years and run the risk of having a criminal case opened against them.
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