A Cuban family of Jehovah’s Witnesses was separated by the parole humanitarian after immigration officials did not allow the father to enter the US.
“The three of us were quickly approved by USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), but my husband was denied a travel permit, the child and I received it instantly, but it took him 21 days and he arrived denied” Saily Rodríguez told journalist Mario J. Pentón from AmericaTeve Miami.
The woman, who traveled to the US with their son, asks her husband “not to be discouraged, to fight and to pray a lot to God.”
“I ask all the people who can hear me to please do their bit and help unite this family,” he added.
The woman has hired a lawyer in Tampa who is in contact with the State Department to find out about the father’s background and the reasons for the refusal.
Rodríguez argues that after the investigation she has received official letters from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stating that there is no reason why her husband cannot travel to the United States. .UU.
In addition, the woman assures that their son, with medical problems, requires the presence of his father.
“I have a child with a special condition, with neurological problems, he has mild cerebral palsy, which affected his psychomotor system, he has autism disorders. He is the one who is paying the consequences, he is the one to whom these things are taking their toll ”, he laments.
The family, who in Cuba were self-employed, do not understand the reason for the refusal.
“Thanks to the humanitarian parole we have managed to reach this great country, where I have already been able to notice the great benefits my child receives. Today, when I arrived at that hospital, I was speechless, when I saw the attention that the doctors gave him, ”he comments.
“It has been very terrible, we are a well-established couple, married for 25 years,” he says about the separation.
More than 38,000 Cubans received approval to travel to the United States. since the humanitarian parole program began. Of the Cuban cases reviewed and approved, more than 35,000 have managed to reach US territory.
The humanitarian parole is in litigation in a Texas federal court following a lawsuit from 20 red states to remove it. The case will go to trial on August 24. and a verdict is expected by the end of the year.
