The Cuban Foundation for Human Rights (FHRC), a non-governmental organization, has documented more than 115 cases of members of Cuba's communist regime relocating to the United States since February 2023.
The FHRC is a Cuban human rights organization that, among other projects and initiatives, Maintain The broader public list The Castro regime's list of repressors. At the time of writing, the list includes more than 1,000 individuals known to be repressors, including members of the Cuban Communist Party, national security officials, police officials, Cuban government officials, prosecutors, and judges.
On Tuesday, FHRC Director Tony Costa warned at a press conference in Miami, Florida, that the number of representatives of the Castro regime entering the United States has “increased five-fold” since 2023.
“We have identified more than 1,000 repressors of the Cuban regime, and of the more than 115 who have entered the country in the past year, many are lying,” Costa said. said.
According to FHRC records, the number of oppressors who entered the United States represents more than 10 percent of the organization's entire list of known oppressors.
Cuba is currently facing its worst migration crisis in history. Collapse Both are the result of the Castro regime, which brought Cuba to the brink of collapse through more than 60 years of communist rule, complete with countless human rights violations.
The collapse of Cuba due to Communist misrule 90 percent Seventy percent of the population lives in extreme poverty and suffers from other inhumane living conditions, including frequent power outages and a lack of adequate access to water, health care, medicines, food and other supplies. Lost 18 percent Between 2022 and 2023, 50% of that population is expected to be caught up in the migration crisis.
Rolando Cartaya, the FHRC member in charge of the Repressed Persons List, said: said The organization reported that since the start of the migrant crisis, an increasing number of Castro regime rebels have been arriving in the U.S. at the southern border. Cartaya said the rebels are being held accountable by the Biden administration's “Humanitarian Parole“program.
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Elixir Aland, a Cuban immigrant, said at the conference that two Cuban oppressors who subjected him to “acts of denial” while he was living at Guantanamo now live in the United States.
“It is unheard of that the people who oppressed us and beat us are living in this great country and enjoying our freedom,” Aland said.
“Acts of Rejection” are mob attacks perpetrated by the Castro regime against dissidents, in which mobs swarm targets and their homes, chanting insults and “revolutionary” slogans, and in some cases throwing garbage and other objects at them.
Cuban journalist Roberto Quiñones Imprisoned He has previously covered the case of a religious couple who wanted to home-school their children, and said the judge who rejected the appeal also now lives in the United States.
FHRC members were joined at the press conference by Rep. Carlos Jimenez (R-Fla.), who pledged to identify and repatriate to Cuba oppressors of the Castro regime who currently live in the United States.
“If they have been fighting for the regime for so long, they should stay in Cuba,” Jimenez said. “They are not needed here.”
🚨ÚLTIMA HORA —> Sires un represor Castrista viviendo en Estados Unidos, te vamos a identificar y serás devuelto a #Cuba He is a scammer immigrant.
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— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) August 27, 2024
“If you are a Castro oppressor living in the United States, we will identify you and deport you to Cuba for immigration fraud,” Jimenez's message read. “It is unacceptable that the Biden-Harris administration would facilitate agents of a regime that murders our people.”
Jimenez said at a press conference that the arrival of Castro's repressors in the United States will not only affect Cuban society, but also Nicaraguan and Venezuelan societies.
“The people in the dictatorship [Nicolás] “People in the Maduro regime are not eligible to be in the United States, and the same thing is happening in Nicaragua,” Jimenez said. “If they were part of the repression of these regimes, these people should not be entitled to the freedoms that we enjoy here.”
“If they fought so hard for the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, let them stay in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua,” he continued.
The U.S. representative cited several examples of Cuban repressors who have recently arrived in the United States, including Rosabel Roca Sampedro, a prosecutor for the Castro regime known for sentencing at least four Cuban men to prison for protesting. Reportedly He applied for asylum through the Biden administration's CBP One smartphone app.
Jimenez also mentioned the case of Manuel Menéndez Castellanos, a former member of Cuba's Communist Party and a former aide to Fidel Castro. Arrived In August in the United States.
Despite his public record as a Communist official having served the Castro regime for decades, Menéndez Castellanos received a U.S. immigrant visa through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program known as “Cuban Family Reunification Parole” (CFRP) and is currently believed to be living in Florida.
Other known Castro repressors who have recently arrived in the U.S. include Cuban judge Melody Gonzalez Pedraza, who has been accused of imposing excessive prison sentences on peaceful dissidents. request After arriving in Tampa, Florida, he defected to the United States in June.
In May, Arelis Casanora Quintana, a former local government official in the Castro regime, entered the United States and is now Reportedly They are believed to live in Kentucky. Two nieces of Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz. Reportedly One crossed the US southern border and the other is residing in Florida after being accepted as a beneficiary of a “humanitarian parole” program.
Marrero Cruz's son, Manuel Alejandro Marrero Medina, was reportedly accepted as a beneficiary of a “humanitarian parole” program, but ultimately Denied A flight permit required to enter the United States.
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan author documenting life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter. here.
