Would-be Cuban immigrants left in limbo by consular closure
Gisela Salomon, Associated Press Updated 4:38 am CDT, Tuesday, July 30, 2019
MIAMI (AP) — Mary Sardinas had prepared a room in her Miami house for the arrival of her son from Cuba. He'd sold his home and left his job thinking he'd soon be living in the United States. That was two years ago and he's still in Cuba.
Sardinas is among thousands of Cubans living in the United States whose hopes of reuniting with family members have been put on hold since September 2017, when the Trump administration pulled most of its embassy staff out of Cuba in response to a mysterious illness that struck at least two dozen diplomats or their relatives.
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"We've been waiting for two years," said Sardinas, a 60-year-old woman who came to Florida in 2015. "Why can't we live as a family? What does he have to do? Dive in (the sea) and risk his life?" she asked. Her 41-year-old son, Jorge Luis Carrera Sardinas, had passed his final interview for the permit and was just waiting to go to the embassy to receive it.
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