Sponsor's figure generates a wave of memes and reactions on social networks

Barely 48 hours have passed since the announcement of thenew immigration program launched by the Biden administration, Cuban social networks are fuming with countless memes about the figure of the “sponsor”, converted into a new object of desire for those who wish to join the largest migratory exodus in the history of Cuba.

Despite the dramatic exodus they are experiencing, Cuban Internet users have not missed the opportunity to mock this new circumstance that disrupts the immigration plans of thousands of people who desperately seek to leave a country that is sinking into never seen levels of poverty, injustice and social inequality. .

“The sponsor is the basis of everything,” summarized one of them in a post onFacebook in which he equated the magical powers of the sponsor with the prodigious formula of the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel,that will go down in history for its cryptic statement of "lemonade is the basis of everything."

Unaware of the fine print of the new rules for Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants, another Internet user asked himself “what the hell is a sponsor?”, making the motivation behind the doubt clear: “I'm asking to start riding 2.0.”

“In another order of news, the phrase: ‘Looking for a Sponsor’ is a Trend on social networks,” said a Facebook user in a publication that points to a trend that Cuban Internet users are beginning to detect, including the comedianUlises Toirac, who stated thatthe word “sponsor” surpassed the word “recharge” in use.

Following the trail of ridicule about this new requirement, the Cuban entrepreneur and San Isidro garrison, Osmani Pardo, sarcastically addressed the Central Intelligence Agency to request their help.

“CIA, I'm still waiting for the check that never arrived, and you were my sponsor. Seriously speaking, I need a sponsor, who can help me with that?” wrote the activist and persecuted politician whom State Security accuses, as it does with all independent voices of civil society, of being an employee of US agencies.

“Save a life, sponsor a Cuban,” said one with an ironic advertising tone. “I am looking for a sponsor; I wash, I iron, I cook, I scrub, I take the dogs for a walk, contact the private person,” another said in a much more direct way, in the style of classified ads pages.

Although the amount of the sponsorship is still unknown, which will have to be published in the legal instructions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it is already known thatThe sponsor does not have to be a close relativeThis may be a friend or benefactor responsible for supporting your application and assisting you in arriving in the United States.

“Would you like to be my eligible sponsor?” asked one on Facebook, accompanying the request with a drawing of a character with pleading eyes. Meanwhile, on Twitter, another user used the same expression in the look of Puss in Boots (from the film Shrek), asking the same thing.

“Would you like to be my sponsor?” asks the feline in the image. “Tweet valid to share on your profile, paste on your Facebook wall or in your WhatApp status, and the yuma who likes or comments on it is your sponsor,” the Internet user said.

The saga of jokes did not miss Jack Sparrow, the famous pirate of the Caribbean, whose image running in front of a crowd of enemies trying to hunt him, gave rise to his meme. “The eligible sponsor thing was playing, joneee!” Sparrow shouts desperately as he flees.

“I know you're out there, sponsor who's going to take care of this poor soul, I swear I'll find you and when we get to Miami we'll make a big deal out of Biden,” tweeted @asere_memes, sharing a Balzac image from The Simpsons.

The new figure added to the bestiary of Cuban emigration, displaced others already known with his arrival. An Internet user crossed out the following ads “wanted old Canadian” and “wanted coyote.” Instead of those other escape routes, the meme updated the new escape route: “Sponsor wanted.”

“Facebook right now…” said another Cuban who summarized the impact that the figure of the sponsor is having on the conversation of Cubans on social networks, using another image of the Simpsons bar, where a crowd gathered around Homer Simpson does nothing but talk about the “eligible sponsor.”