The family of Yordan Vega Rodríguez, one of the 33 Cubans who were deported to Cuba from the United States on Thursday, July 20, denounced that what happened was not fair, since he could not even meet his newborn daughter.
According to Arletty Salgado Pérez, Vega’s wife, the little girl came into the world 10 days after her father was detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
The woman claims to feel a terrible impotence, pointing out that she never imagined that something like this would happen.
“I have a pain in my soul, in my heart, really, I didn’t think this was going to happen (…) He cried and told me ‘what is happening to us is unfair,'” the woman told the outlet. Univision.
The woman considers that the authorities should not have taken away her right to see her newborn daughter. According to the woman, everything her husband went through was an injustice, since he was detained in Louisiana for two years, before being released under supervision.
“Very unfair, they took away the right to see her born. She was deprived of the right to have a visitor there. It is unfair”.
After spending four years in the country without being able to solve his immigration situation, the authorities decided to deport him.
Vega’s wife is worried, because she does not know what she will do on the island. According to her, they will not even give her the right to work in the Greater Antilles.
“In Cuba now he will be, as we say, a destitute, a nobody.”
The woman questioned the authorities for detaining Cubans who try to do things well, work and pay their taxes, all while there are other people who do not contribute to society and deserve to be deported.
“Not those people, those people commit a different crime every day and here they are,” she concluded, outraged by the situation.
Vega was returned to the Island aboard the fourth deportation flight organized by the Joe Biden administration since the beginning of 2023. These four operations have returned 258 since April.
In addition to Vega, the case of Sergio Pérez Amigo is known, whose 10-year-old son, Jordan, was left alone in the United States. According to the medium Telemundo 51the minor’s mother lives on the Island, and she only has an aunt in Florida, but she does not have legal custody.
