EMOTIONAL: Father deported to Cuba manages to return to the USA to reunite with his wife and his baby.

Yoan Enríquez, a Cuban who was deported to the island from the US in November 2023, having to leave behind his wife and his baby, who was three months old at the time, has just managed to reunite with his family in the city of Tampa.

Enríquez did not give up, left Cuba again, embarked on another journey, waited in Mexico for two months for an appointment with CBP One, and once in Mexican territory, requested an appointment with U.S. immigration authorities.

There he presented evidence of what his life was like as a deportee in Cuba and why returning to the island would put him in danger.

Finally, he was admitted to US territory with a parole that, after a year and a day, will allow him to apply for the Cuban Adjustment Act and obtain his residency in the United States, as detailed to Telemundo 51 by his lawyer, Miguel Inda Romero.

"The first day she looked at me, as if thinking: I know him, but I have never had him in front of me," explained Yoan to the aforementioned media when describing how the reunion with his little daughter, who is now nine months old, has been.

The truth was tough. Seeing you again in the same place from where one fled, where one felt bad, where one felt like a prisoner," he said about what returning to Cuba meant to him.

After months of anguish and separation, this touching reunion marks the beginning of a new stage in their lives.

In 2020, Yoan illegally crossed the southern border of the United States.

For several months, he was in a migrant center until he was released with a deportation order, the document known as I220B, because he had missed his credible fear interview.

"As you don't know English, they tell you: sign here, this is what you said in the credible fear interview, and one signs. However, in those supposed statements that are on paper, there are things that one never mentioned. I know several people in similar situations," Enríquez explained.

Every year, he had to appear before the immigration authorities, while moving forward with his life in the United States.

However, in November 2023, after the resumption of deportation flights between the Cuban regime and the Biden administration, he was summoned, taken to a detention center, handcuffed, and placed on a plane that took him back to Cuba.

"We couldn't believe we were going through that," recalls his wife, Melissa Vera, now.

Around that time, a sad image of the young man looking at his little daughter through a glass went viral. It was the last time he saw her before being deported.

"I have very few memories of having cried as much as that day," Yoan Enríquez now recalls about the day he was returned to Cuba. He asserts that he will not shake off the fear until he obtains residence in the United States territory."

Yoan Enríquez met with his wife and his family last May 12th, Mother's Day.

It was truly the best gift for my wife, for my daughter, and for my mom. Now, to start over, because I have many goals in this country that has given me a second chance," he concluded.