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. Sánchezs 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.
FSogol
(47,581 posts)ancianita
(43,256 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,703 posts)True Trmpian thinking.
Grins
(9,405 posts)Hanlon's Razor:
Scrivener7
(59,330 posts)paleotn
(22,069 posts)Now didn't South Florida Cubans turn out in droves for Trump last year? Ooops.
chicoescuela
(3,006 posts)IronLionZion
(51,116 posts)Blasphemer
(3,618 posts)Old Crank
(6,902 posts)Cubans have been largely GOP voters and here is the pay back.
NBachers
(19,379 posts)SamKnause
(14,862 posts)Shipwack
(3,048 posts)So lets put it to music!
BettyBlueDot
(19 posts)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.
LymphocyteLover
(9,733 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,733 posts)Timeflyer
(3,739 posts)ratchiweenie
(8,192 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,991 posts)And selfishness caused this.
On the bright side - they will have awesome health care!
Aristus
(72,057 posts)That must really suck