Parole falso: El fraude que involucró a una joven cubana

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Parole falso: El fraude que involucró a una joven cubana Naya Cruz Fonseca salió de Cuba con la esperanza de rehacer su vida en EE. UU. gracias al parole humanitario, sin embargo, cuando arribó al país norteamericano fue detenida, pues su documento era falso Entrevista exclusiva para ADN Cuba por Nitsy Grau

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00:00 In any situation that is happening in Cuba, I am sure that it will be better to be in prison.

00:05 I know that the wait of despair does not become a victim of it, just like me.

00:10 I feel very fortunate to have left and with parole.

00:15 Naya Cruz Fonseca left Cuba with the hope of re-establishing her life in the United States thanks to humanitarian parole.

00:24 However, when she arrived in the US, she was arrested because her document was false.

00:30 The 20-year-old young woman asked for political asylum and was released from a Florida detention center

00:36 after spending two months in prison for alleged fraud.

00:40 Tell me Naya, you are from Astuna, how old are you? You are very young.

00:44 Yes, I am from Astuna, I am 20 years old, well, almost 21, almost 4 months.

00:50 Tell me, how was this experience that you had of arriving in the United States with a false parole?

00:57 How was that moment? What exactly happened?

01:00 I had applied for parole and we had been waiting for too long, waiting for 6 months in Cuba.

01:06 And well, the despair of leaving there led us to fall into an ad on Facebook of an alleged lawyer.

01:17 And well, she said she was in charge of everything, etc.

01:24 I only got the emails with the respective travel authorization and when I arrived here, it was the problem.

01:31 At the airport, after I made the queue for immigration, they said, "Let's see, the people with parole."

01:38 They gave me parole, "Yes, well, the people with parole, come here."

01:40 They took me to a separate office, all routine.

01:43 It was the first time they called me and when the officer put my number on the computer, nothing came out on the screen.

01:51 Then they told me to sit down, that there was a problem with my paper.

01:57 Until that moment I thought, well, a normal mistake, something that can be corrected at the moment.

02:03 And they started to pass the other people and they left me alone.

02:07 And then they told me that my paper was false.

02:09 What did you do at that moment? What was your first reaction?

02:13 I started crying because I didn't believe it.

02:16 I couldn't believe that this was what was happening.

02:19 You thought they were going to deport you, obviously, right?

02:24 Yes, in fact, yes, they told my boyfriend that they already had my passport, everything was clear.

02:30 That same day, no, the next day at least.

02:33 So, how did you get out of that situation and not be deported immediately? What happened?

02:40 Well, during my interrogation, they asked me if I was afraid to return to my country.

02:49 I said yes and I was here.

02:53 So, where did you go from there?

02:56 Well, they kept me in a cell at the airport until about 7 at night.

03:06 And they took me to a federal prison near Tampa.

03:16 They kept me in that federal prison for two nights, the two worst nights of my life.

03:22 I spent two nights crying, without sleeping. Oh, how sad.

03:27 And then they came to pick me up and took me to a detention center for immigrants in Tampa, Nuevo Mexico.

03:34 In that detention center for immigrants, how long were you there?

03:39 Two and a half months, more or less.

03:42 And there, how was the treatment? How did you feel there?

03:47 Well, the truth is that the treatment is quite heavy on the part of some officials.

03:54 And the food is bad, bad.

03:58 But, from the outside, everything bad that can be with that.

04:05 In that time that you were there, were you in communication with your family, with your boyfriend, with the other people?

04:13 Did they support you? What was going on around you?

04:18 Yes, yes. I talked every day with my boyfriend and he was in charge of telling my family there in Cuba how it was.

04:27 And on Mondays, there was a free call and I called Cuba on Mondays.

04:33 At this time, are you in any legal process against this person who committed the fraud?

04:38 No, I would not like to complicate things further and I have already gone through a lot of bad things.

04:47 And then I say, well, if I managed to get out of there, I want to close that issue and not continue to investigate the fraud.

04:58 What can you advise after this experience that you have had so strong?

05:03 Well, I really tell them to wait, that although I know that the wait is not to become a victim of it, just like me.

05:12 I tell them to do all the steps that go, the steps that lead, do not try to delay any immigration process.

05:18 That is not done. I do not recommend it.

05:23 [Music]

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