A short video of a little Cuban girl asking the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to finish receiving her parole so she can escape the blackouts on the island has gone viral on social networks, where thousands have identified with the sentiment. of helplessness expressed by the minor.
“Mr. Biden, I can't stand this heat anymore, I want you to give me parole”, the girl is heard saying in the images, recorded in the middle of one of the many blackouts that in recent days have pushed Cubans to the limit in the midst of a context of growing economic crisis.“If anyone in that damn dictatorship had shame, this ordeal would end once and for all. There are no words to describe the evil that this gang of inept people has done to the Cuban people.”Pentón wrote on his networks when presenting the images.
“No milk, no bread, no candy because they sell them in dollars, with demolished schools... no snack, no future. There are no words to describe what these gangsters have done to our country. "Really outrageous", noted the journalist among the comments, where hundreds of people on both Facebook and Twitter have reflected the prevailing unrest in Cuba and the seriousness of the situation being experienced.
"This miserable life we lead is not easy. Our lives pass away in blackouts and shortages"; "Likewise, I have a three-year-old girl and she says to me: 'Mom, why are you turning off the light?... God, give me the strength to continue holding on'; "These things break the soul when it comes to our children, seeing them suffer in this way, having such a sad childhood, that childhood that comes and goes so quickly and seeing them live it surrounded by misery and scarcity... it hurts the soul," were some comments.
On the opposite level, others who have already been able to escape are grateful to be able to offer their children a better future.
"That's how I was with my three little children who were crying because of the blackouts and I saw them sweating until they fell asleep from exhaustion and I was blowing air on them with a cardboard. That's why I thank God every day for the opportunity to have arrived in the United States with parole. "God have mercy and put an end to this cruel dictatorship," said a Cuban mother from the United States.
In the last 13 months of operation of the program, only around 75,000 Cubans have been able to immigrate to the United States through humanitarian parole, according to official figures from the US Department of Homeland Security, a figure that is much lower than the almost 400,000 applications that were made. they had received until December 2023.
The good news is that, despite the slowness in the processing and resolution of the applications - an issue that worries Cubans - last Friday federal judge Drew Tipton of the Victoria court, in Texas, decided thatThe humanitarian parole program for Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti will be maintained.
The judge's decision was based on the fact that the 21 Republican states that sued the federal government when the program began could not demonstrate that the parole had brought them significant damages.
The aforementioned states, including Florida, argued that the humanitarian parole forced them to spend millions of dollars on medical care, education and public safety for immigrants; However, the judge assured that, on the contrary, in Texas, the state that led the lawsuit, costs in several programs decreased after the parole came into effect.
Recently, President Joe Biden's administration assured thatI would fight to maintain the humanitarian parole, an initiative that has contributed to controlling the irregular migratory flow across the southern border with Mexico.
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