By Francisco Arias Fernandez on July 21, 2025
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From panic and pain caused by being forcibly separated from their families and homes, thousands of migrants find themselves completely helpless in unfamiliar countries, without relatives or the slightest idea of where to go.
While anti-Cuban congressmen remain complicit in their silence, bowing to presidential and state decisions on the inhumane and arbitrary treatment of newly arrived migrants and long-time residents, new measures by Donald Trump have put immigrant communities in South Florida on alert, where panic and helplessness reign.
According to El Nuevo Herald, a new package or memorandum from the president has been announced, which includes rapid deportations to third countries within just six hours of notification, even without the destination countries offering guarantees of safety.
Immigration lawyers, human rights defenders, and families denounce this measure as one of the most extreme tactics of President Donald Trump’s hard-line approach to immigration. “They are creating real chaos,” Elizabeth Amaran, a Miami-based immigration lawyer, told the newspaper, questioning the impossibility of preparing a legal defense for the individuals. “In practice, it is a total denial of due process,” she denounced.
The publication adds that “the Miami area, home to large communities of Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians, is shaping up to be one of the most affected by the new policy, and also one of the most politically sensitive. Many immigrants in South Florida currently live in legal limbo, with pending asylum applications or final deportation orders that have not been enforced.”
According to the memo, initially reported by The Washington Post, ICE is now authorized to deport non-citizens—including long-term residents of the United States—to third countries with only 24 hours’ notice. In “urgent circumstances,” that period can be reduced to six hours.
The report continues that in cases where the receiving country has offered “credible diplomatic assurances” that the deported person will not face torture or persecution, ICE may carry out the deportation without prior notification to the affected person, which legal experts have described as “an excessive power of expulsion, with few safeguards and no transparency, well below the legal standards and due process required by law,” Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, told Reuters.
According to the report, last week, eight migrants from countries such as Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam were deported to South Sudan, a nation embroiled in civil conflict. According to reports, US officials pressured five African countries—Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Gabon—to accept deportees from other regions, such as Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Migrant advocates point out that most of those detained under this policy have no criminal record and many have pending asylum applications or other legal avenues available to them; however, they are being deported before their cases are even heard.
But the panic and pain of being forcibly separated from their families and homes gives way to total helplessness in unfamiliar countries, with no relatives and no idea where to go.
It is claimed that many are being sent to remote areas of Mexico, despite not being Mexican citizens, and without the means to survive. They are transported by bus to remote border areas, given a temporary 15-day permit and left there with no money, no shelter and no plan.
This is a new chapter in the growing list of neo-fascist measures taken by the worst government, led by Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, promoters of migrant concentration camps on military bases, macabre prisons in El Salvador—exclusively for Venezuelans—and more than 200 prisons or immigration detention centers in the United States, many of them lucrative and controversial private businesses, and a new Alcatraz prison surrounded by political crocodiles and alligators west of the modern and intimidated city of Miami.
Source: Granma, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English