SLP, Mexico.- Cuban American congresswoman María Elvira Salazar sent a message for Cuban migrants who fear being deported since President Donald Trump ended program previously known as processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV).
During an interview to means From the press, within the framework of the Republican meeting in doral, Salazar expressed his desire that “good people be protected.” “In that I am, that we can protect them,” he said before the press.
Before the concern of the community of Cubans with I-220A and I-220b If they were returned to her country of origin, the legislator commented that not only for them but also for those who entered through the CBP One application requested legal protection.
“We have asked the administration that those people who are in the process, especially Cubans who have the Cuban adjustment law, allow them finish The process, because they have parole. And I have also asked him for Nicaraguans, for Haitians and for Venezuelans, who have requested political asylum, which allow the legal process to end, ”he said in the video shared by the journalist Mario J. Pentón.
In his opinion, it is a difficult issue because the previous four years have put the country “in this situation.”
“The American people voted in favor of illegal They will take it out. That’s true. The thing that is that within the illegal, the undocumented, there are many people. There are the Cubans, there is the TPS (temporary protection status). Those are the little sensibilities that we understand why we are in southern Florida. But that does not mean that the rest of the Republican conference understands the difference between a Colombian, a Venezuelan, the TPS, the CBP One, the I-220-A, ”he said.
For the congresswoman, the fundamental thing is to get “all criminals”: “to all rapists, murderers, let them all leave”, as long as good people are protected.
Having wondered about the pause in the release of political prisoners, the congresswoman stressed that the administration did not understand “who they were dealing with.” “They were dealing with Satan.”
In turn, he stated that in the current situation, without water, without light, without electricity or medicine, the Cuban people have no hope and lost their fear.
“And we know that under the four years of President Trump do not last. Because with Marco Rubio at the head and with us in the Congressthe only thing we want is a regime change, a regime change so that the Cuban people can be the same as any other people in the United States, in Latin America or in the western hemisphere, free, ”he said.
“I am defending all those who have been here for more than five years, who do not have criminal records, who have American children, who are working, who have been collecting potatoes or collecting tomatoes for years. These people deserve to be given dignity and that is the name of my law. Now, if you are in a house or under the same roof where your cousin or your friend or brother has a criminal history and are looking for it, do not stay in that house because you also leave, ”he said.
Last week, the congresswoman sent the Department of National Security (DHS) parole -In the frame of the CHNV program-, eligible for or with pending applications of the adjustment law Cubanbe protected from deportation until their cases are completely resolved.
He also argued that although former president Joe Biden originally created this new program On “doubtful legal” bases, people enrolled in the programs offered to them. “Therefore, I think they must have the possibility of seeing their requests to rectify their legal situation,” he concluded.
His request occurred after the administration of Donald Trump granted the Immigration and Customs Control (ICE). They drill like him parole humanitarian and application CBP One.
The memorandum describes that ICE agents can “end” deportation cases in process and transfer them to an even more accelerated process. In addition, the right to withdraw the status of parole (temporary residence) who received it under the initiatives of the Biden Administration, including Cubans and citizens of other countries.
