The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba has identified more than 1,000 former Cuban officials who have settled in the United States
14ymedio, Havana, 28 August 2024 — More than 115 repressors who joined the ranks of the Cuban regime have entered the United States in the last year. The figure is five times higher than that reported in February 2023 by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, based in Miami, which manages a program to identify those who, having contributed to the repression on the Island, intend to settle in a democratic country.
The information was revealed at a press conference this Tuesday. Tony Costa, director of the organization, reported that they have “identified more than 1,000 repressors of the Cuban regime (living in the United States) and more than 115 who have entered this country in the last year, many of them lying.”
Accompanied by Florida Republican legislators Carlos Giménez and Ana María Rodríguez, and activists such as Samuel Rodríguez – who manages an economic fund to help prisoners from the protests of July 11, 2021 – Costa indicated that these former officials “have abused the immigration system to come to the United States.” Attorney Santiago Alpízar explained that the humanitarian parole program that has accepted many of the repressors is plagued by “abuses.”
Communist Party members, State Security agents, prosecutors and judges are among the Cubans who have recently arrived and who have been identified in the Cuban Repressors digital project.
It is illegal to give an immigration status to a person who is part of the Communist Party or who is linked to it. It’s against the law
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