Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president Joe Biden. "The releases have not resumed," Camila Rodriguez of the Mexico-based NGO Justicia 11J,
A South Florida-based Coast Guard crew repatriated 12 Cuban migrants back to the island Wednesday following two migration attempts, Coast Guard officials confirmed in a news release.
The Cuban regime started releasing political prisoners last week after President Biden removed the country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But as the new Trump administration reversed the decision this week, the Cuban government seemingly backtracked, kicking off military exercises and pausing prisoners' release.
By once again declaring Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, the United States has shown its true face as a hegemon and despot. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry,
Hours after taking oath as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump reversed the Biden administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by
Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen sanctions on the communist-run island, while Havana would release more than 500 people from its jails who are considered political prisoners by Washington.
More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration may have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that became public Friday.
Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee's ranking member, introduced the bill after Joe Biden in his last week as president said the U.S. was removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism after Cuba agreed to free a number of political prisoners.
Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.
President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally who can’t be sent back to their home countries