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

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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.”