Vivian Limonta Reyes, a Cuban woman who had an I-220B against her and is the mother of a two-year-old boy, was deported to the island this Thursday along with 47 other people.
“I am completely devastated. I am speechless,” said Vivian in statements to journalist Javier Díaz (Univision) from Havana and still not having arrived at her home in Holguín.
"I never thought that the United States government would separate me from my son like this and deport me," added the woman, who cannot process what happened.
"The separation of families should not exist. This country has always been characterized by caring for family unity," lamented her husband, Osmani Pérez, who is now caring for their young child.
"I don't understand how they didn't take into account that Vivian is also married to an American citizen. I have been in this country for 31 years, I am an American citizen, and I am very disappointed," lamented Pérez.
Vivian Limonta's husband tried to stop his wife's deportation through the office of Congressman Carlos Giménez, who issued a statement expressing regret over the incident.
"My congressional office tirelessly fights for the rights of all our residents despite the poor decisions of this administration, including admitting Castro regime repressors into our country while punishing the victims as in this case," says the statement.
Vivian explained that they traveled to the island handcuffed and that upon arriving in Havana, some of the officials who received them mocked them.
"To show you that this country is bad and I'm glad that everything that happened to you happened, look how they deported you and how they treat you like dogs," one of them would have said.
On July 15, Vivian was detained during her annual appointment with Immigration at the ICE office in the city of Miramar. She had had three similar appointments in previous years, but this time they did not let her leave.
She called her husband and told him that they were going to keep her inside to deport her.
"I do not see myself in Cuba at all, nor do I see myself away from my son either. It is not fair for a 2-year-old child with ADHD to be left alone. A condition for which the child needs speech therapy, it is not fair to separate him from his mother," she asserted in statements to Telemundo 51 in July from the Detention Center in Pompano Beach, in Broward County.
"Don't separate families. It's not fair to separate families. I don't believe I am a danger to be here in this society," he said at that time.
When the case was made public last month, it was specified that Vivian was a participant in the MPP immigration program, initiated by the United States in 2019. The Cuban had problems attending a court hearing and was automatically granted an in absentia deportation. After four years, that I-220B document has taken a toll on her.
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