Separated from kids in Cuba and Haiti by Trump travel ban, parents plead for help

Gleydys Sardá and her 6-year-old son during a recent trip she made to Havana to spend time with him. Sardá, a permanent resident living in Broward, is still waiting for approval of an immigrant visa, which will enable him to travel to the United States. But a recent travel ban suspended immigration visas for families like hers. Courtesy.

By Nora Gámez Torres and Jacqueline Charles

As Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits come to terms with what a new U.S. travel ban means for their families’ hopes to reunite, many have flocked to social media in anguish — including children — seeking help.

“President Trump, I ask you to please reconsider family reunification for residents,” said a 10-year-old in a Hello Kitty T-shirt in a video she recorded in Havana. The video was published by her mother, Lia Llanes, a U.S. permanent resident living in Miami, in one of the several Facebook groups where Cubans are discussing the new prohibitions.

“I am a child who, like many others, is waiting for an interview to reunite with our parents so we can grow up in this beautiful country and become a citizen,” the child says in the video. “With great pride, I ask you again, please reconsider. And I ask God to enlighten you. Thank you.”

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