Trump Is Trying To Fast-Track Deportations for People Who Came Here Legally To Flee Socialism and Communism
President Donald Trump is rarely shy. One topic he has been consistently and especially vocal about during his time in American politics—a high bar to meet—is his opposition to socialism and communism.
“Under my administration, we have taken decisive action to stand with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela,” he said during remarks in the East Room at the White House in 2017. “The same failed communist ideology that has brought oppression to Cuba has brought nothing but suffering and misery everywhere and every place it has been anywhere in the world. Communism is the past. Freedom is the future.”
Communism should absolutely be a thing of the past. But a recent immigration policy from the Trump administration calls into question how serious it is about allowing people to access the future the president envisions.
Consider the case of M.A.R., a Cuban man who came to the United States legally in 2024. He was a political dissident in Cuba, as outlined in a recent ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where he faced “threats, harassment, and retaliation from Cuban authorities” for his views. After arriving at the border, he was granted humanitarian parole, obtained a work authorization, and married a U.S. citizen. He has no criminal record.
But when M.A.R. attended an immigration hearing in May of this year, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers directly afterward, even though he had met the legal obligations of his parole and his case had not been dismissed at the hearing. He soon found out, according t
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