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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,675 posts)
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 10:44 PM 19 hrs ago

Meet the Cubans stuck in Mexico under Trump's deportation push."The cruelty was unbelievable, so inhumane."

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/7/12/meet-the-cubans-stuck-in-mexico-under-donald-trumps-deportation-campaign


Palenque, Mexico – In a gloomy house tucked in a dead-end street in southern Mexico, three Cuban men wait out their days watching Hollywood movies, playing dominoes and pooling their change to buy food.

Ricardo Scull Delgado, Ernesto Perez Chapman and Lazaro Diaz Garcia have been stuck there since December.

All three are in their 70s. All three arrived in the United States in 1980, as part of an exodus of refugees fleeing hardship and repression in Cuba.

And all three were expelled from the country last year as part of President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportation.

After decades of sheltering Cubans in exile, critics say the US is now leaving them in limbo abroad, with no means of supporting themselves.

“Our deportation wasn’t legal,” said Scull Delgado.

“But this Trump guy thinks he can do whatever he wants and has an agreement with the Mexican government.”

“They’ve taken everything away from me, for all the years I was working. Everything.”
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Meet the Cubans stuck in Mexico under Trump's deportation push."The cruelty was unbelievable, so inhumane." (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 19 hrs ago OP
Trump will never suffer for his crimes. That's a damn shame, too. rickyhall 18 hrs ago #1
Hey! Miami Cuban Americans!! The guy YOU VOTED FOR Grins 18 hrs ago #2
Jeez, have a heart. hookaleft 18 hrs ago #3
No fuck those excuses fujiyamasan 18 hrs ago #4

rickyhall

(5,529 posts)
1. Trump will never suffer for his crimes. That's a damn shame, too.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 11:07 PM
18 hrs ago

Why I still like old tv shows. The bad guy ALWAYS lost.

Grins

(9,647 posts)
2. Hey! Miami Cuban Americans!! The guy YOU VOTED FOR
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 11:41 PM
18 hrs ago

Did you think you were “special?”

When they come for you, or your family, what will you do?

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