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nycbos

(6,709 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 09:02 PM Jan 20

Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

Source: NY Times.

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.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&utm_sf_cserv_ref=5281959998&utm_sf_post_ref=656183155&fbclid=IwY2xjawPdEj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZksTlPgR8m2S1OK6cBWUUXcuLO0BqyPvAxrTG6KRj-yOTkbt971SRCCAL3E_aem_a9H_IQaS6-LzHgdi2tYPKg





The leopards are getting quite full.
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eppur_se_muova

(41,302 posts)
3. Two factors: (1) They're no longer particularly useful to the GOP; (2) They're still nonwhite. So ... get rid of them.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 09:19 PM
Jan 20

True Trmpian thinking.

BettyBlueDot

(19 posts)
14. Desi Arnaz
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 06:23 AM
Jan 21

Imagine if this regime had ruled in 30s and 40s, we never would have had Cuban Pete, ala I Love Lucy. He gave a tearful speech in 1956 on how grateful he was to be in America. I cry as I think what has happened to his great America.

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