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'It's not fair': Pro-Trump Cubans revolt against White House [View all]
FAFO ... in the land of face eating leopards.
https://www.rawstory.com/travel-ban-2674212760/
A number of pro-Trump Cuban Americans are revolting against the White House’s immigration policy after their own lives have been uprooted by... Donald Trump’s travel ban on Cuba, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
One such Cuban American is Arely Díaz Leal, a resident of Tampa, Florida, who close to a decade ago applied for her son to be allowed to immigrate to the United States. Leal’s son has still not been granted a visa, and following the Trump administration’s travel ban on Cuba – purportedly implemented to protect the United States from terrorism – her prospects of reuniting with her son have grown even less likely.
... another Cuban American pushing back against the White House is Leymi Reyes Figueredo, who immigrated legally from Cuba to Miami, Florida in 2022, but left her now 15-year-old daughter behind. Having planned to reunite in Miami this year, Figeredo was left devastated after learning in August that her daughter’s visa had been denied.
“I understand why you have to protect the country, [but] how is a child a terrorist?” Figueredo said, speaking with the Post.
One such Cuban American is Arely Díaz Leal, a resident of Tampa, Florida, who close to a decade ago applied for her son to be allowed to immigrate to the United States. Leal’s son has still not been granted a visa, and following the Trump administration’s travel ban on Cuba – purportedly implemented to protect the United States from terrorism – her prospects of reuniting with her son have grown even less likely.
... another Cuban American pushing back against the White House is Leymi Reyes Figueredo, who immigrated legally from Cuba to Miami, Florida in 2022, but left her now 15-year-old daughter behind. Having planned to reunite in Miami this year, Figeredo was left devastated after learning in August that her daughter’s visa had been denied.
“I understand why you have to protect the country, [but] how is a child a terrorist?” Figueredo said, speaking with the Post.
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