Cuban asylum seekers who have had a clear path to legal status in the U.S. since the 1960s are now finding that route blocked by the Trump administration, according to lawyers representing Cuban nationals.
Cuban asylum seekers who have had a clear path to legal status in the United States since the 1960s are now finding that route blocked by the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, according to lawyers representing Cuban nationals.
That law, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, recognized that Cubans fleeing a communist government had strong asylum cases. It allowed access to a green card for Cuban nationals who had been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States and had also spent at least one year and one day in the U.S.However, this year, Cubans who ask for asylum at the U.S.
Teresa, who said she fled Cuba because of political persecution by the communist government, has two adult sons in the United States.Being in Mexico felt like “coming out of a tunnel with a blindfold on,” Teresa said. She had no phone, no way to contact her family and was too afraid to speak to strangers for fear that they’d recognize her Cuban accent and kidnap her.
Some of the people in Matamoros include Cuban doctors who say the communist government forced them to work in Venezuela as well as asylum seekers with relatives in the United States. This is the first time since the Cuban Adjustment Act was signed into law that asylum-seeking Cubans have been barred from entering the United States like this, Lin said.
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