Cuban asylum seekers dismayed their compatriots boosted Trump in Florida

  • 11/5/2020
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Jose Manuel Maranillo, a Cuban asylum seeker stranded in Mexico by Republican President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, was distraught when learned his brother-in-law in Florida had voted for him.“Imagine it!” he exclaimed on Wednesday while working as a fruit and vegetable vendor in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. “I’m a part of his family! I feel terrible he voted for Trump because we’re stuck here in Juarez hoping for (Joe) Biden to win so he can help us and Latinos in the United States too,” he said. On Tuesday, a wave of support from the large Cuban-American community helped Trump to a narrow but decisive victory in key battleground state Florida. But Cuban asylum seekers stranded in Mexico under the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies are praying that Democrat Biden wins nationally - and more than a half dozen Cubans told Reuters they’re upset, although altogether not surprised, that their family members and compatriots bolstered Trump in a critical swing state. “They’re only thinking about the benefits for themselves if Trump wins, and nothing else,” said Dairon Elisondo, a Cuban doctor and asylum seeker who works in a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, just across the river from Brownsville, Texas.

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