SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico.- Ana Karelia Borrego Machadoa Cuban doctor who was permanently dismissed from her job for alleged unjustified absences, a measure that was fundamentally political in nature, requested political asylum in the United States.
As she recounted in a Facebook post, on August 9 Borrego Machado arrived at the Texas border accompanied by her second son, seeking refuge in the United States. Although she was transferred to a detention center in Karnes County, where she received a response positive for his asylum application, his son was returned to Mexico to apply for a CBP ONE appointment.
“Because my son was of legal age, he was tried separately from me. These were desperate moments because we had never been separated from each other to protect each other,” said the doctor.
In her account of the events, she added that on August 11 she was transferred to the Karnes County Immigration Center where she was detained requesting political asylum and eight days later she was released with a locator on her ankle.
The doctor, who must appear before the court She fears being deported and fears for her son’s fate in Mexico. “I fear very much for his life in that territory as well.”
For this reason, she appealed to the media and to all those who could echo her case to avoid her deportation.
“I cannot return to my country because of repression. I have documentary evidence of my case,” the doctor concluded.
A graduate in Medicine, Specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine (MGI), with a double diploma in Natural and Traditional Medicine and Homeopathy, Ana Karelia Borrego Machado was fired at the end of 2011 by Public Health officials who decided to remove her from her supposed job and from the entity for alleged unjustified absences.
The proceedings against her, which included clear violations of the labor code, were riddled with “injustice, arbitrariness, untimeliness and illegality,” according to the victim.
According to the specialist herself, CubaNeton that occasion she was threatened with eviction.
Borrego complained to several authorities and presented her case through national media, but no one paid attention to her.
The reason, he confirmed, was that the Ministry of Public Health had a document in its possession stating that he was a dissident and that he participated in the Human Rights commissions.
“I sought help from the independent press and this led to even more persecution and repression that made my life on the island impossible,” she said.
Like Borrego, many Cubans They flee from Cuba, where they suffer persecution by repressive bodies, but see the path fraught with difficulties and face possible deportation. Meanwhile, regime repressors have arrived through humanitarian parole or family reunification programs.
