HRW Says 41 Cuban Deportees Face Legal Limbo in Mexico Under Trump Policy

2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 27

Human Rights Watch said Cuban deportees sent from the United States to Mexico are surviving with little money or documentation, with some ending up on the street or in public parks.
Interviews with 53 recent deportees — including 41 Cubans — found many could not legally work, move within Mexico or return to Cuba, leaving them in what the group called indefinite legal limbo.
Older men were prominent in the cases: the oldest was 83, several had lived in the United States for decades, and some had lost green cards after criminal convictions that Cuba often refuses to accept.
A 59-year-old deportee described a 38-hour bus trip to Villahermosa before Mexican authorities told passengers to get off, illustrating a Trump-era shift that has driven record Cuban deportations to Mexico and largely shut legal migration from the island.

Is the U.S. creating a permanent, stateless class of elderly Cubans abandoned in Mexico?

Stranded between nations, what future awaits the Cuban deportees that neither the U.S. nor Cuba will claim?