To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html

Heidy Sánchez took her 17-month-old daughter to a routine check-in last April with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tampa, Fla. During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding.

Two days later, Ms. Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported.

Ms. Sánchez’s story quickly spread across social media, in part because she is Cuban, a group that had long been treated differently than other immigrants, even when they entered the country illegally.

That has changed under President Trump.

He has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Mr. Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.

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Legal immigration has also been all but cut out. Mr. Trump enacted a travel ban on 19 countries, including Cuba, and ended a family reunification program. U.S. officials are rejecting visa applications, which can take years to complete. Last month, the Trump administration paused all Cuban immigration cases, including pending naturalization, residency and asylum applications.

[LisaL]

1. Majority of Cubans voted for Trump,

so I guess that's what they wanted.

[biophile]

2. This kinda falls into the "Told you so" department

They thought they were special.

[Trueblue Texan]

7. They FAFOed. NT

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Unfortunately

this likely won't end the love affair between the GOP and Florida Cubans.

[Ars Longa]

4. Cubans will say : Democrats failed to protect us from Trump!!

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[CatWoman]

12. lol

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[flashman13]

5. The fact that a Democratic non Cuban woman, Eileen Higgins, is now mayor of Miami might argue against that theory.

The first Democrat in 30 years, with 59% of the vote no less.

[Beartracks]

10. Right? Too many recalcitrant Trump voters don't get that the entire GOP is in on it. n/t

[orangecrush]

6. ..

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[kerry-is-my-prez]

8. Good. I'm still bitter about that Cuban "riot" that helped hand Bush the Presidency.

I will help with making Florida blue to get rid of them.

[Orrex]

11. Well, each and every one of them who voted for him can go fuck themselves.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Whenever someone bitches about tRump I ask, "Who did YOU vote for?".

It saves me a lot of time and energy.

[ColoringFool]

14. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's A Shame.

[Cha]

15. Exactly PEDO Traitor Tearing Families

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Don't Cubans usually vote for the Idiot?

[Jack Valentino]

16. That's what they got for holding their 'Bay of Pigs' grudge for too long

against the Kennedys for the Bay of Pigs, and against the Democratic party for being 'too socialist'---
and voting for the right-wing authoritarian nazi-wannabe dictator!


Trump TOLD US ALL what he meant to do,
his goal of 'mass deportations' was no secret
(although the reality of how it is being done is perhaps even worse
than most of us expected--- particularly when it comes to how
US citizens are being MURDERED by ICE in the streets--!)

So now some of their community and possibly family relations who are not citizens
are being deported....

I hope the Cubans in Florida and elsewhere who are now citizens and can VOTE,
GET the message!---- If the Democratic Party "socialists" were in control,
your community would not be being devastated and deported by US!

[SamKnause]

17. Good.

[fujiyamasan]

18. I wish I could feel sympathy

But Cuban Americans, yikes… sorry given their voting patterns… Tiny violins…

Coming to feel a similar resentment for older Asian immigrants here in Orange County who constantly vote republican.

[Buckeyeblue]

19. I don't understand why we would break up families like this

If she is working and not breaking the law it doesn't seem like she is a threat to the country. If anything, as a home health care worker, she is doing a job that we have trouble finding enough people to do.

Is there more to this story that we aren't being told?