It was recently revealed that dozens of Cubans who received the I-220A form upon entering the United States have agreed to meet in Washington this Thursday afternoon to demand that they be given an immigration status that allows them to benefit from the Cuban Adjustment Act and obtain permanent residency in this country under the same.
In statements offered to the Telemundo 51 team, Osefa Pino, one of the women who will participate in the protest, said: "We just want to go and raise our voices, so that they understand us, that we do not have a status and we want to live legally in this country, that we do not want to be thinking about what could happen tomorrow and deport us."
Silvia Rivera, another person who will join this protest, said: "It is a great pain that one feels. We are still without residency, when people like us came in, they were given parole and now they are residents."
The protesters will gather in front of the White House, as many did last January to demand an alternative to regularize their immigration status in the country. Even a group of Antilleans who have formed a kind of anti-communist movement will also go to the capital to raise their voices in front of the Cuban embassy on Thursday.
It is worth remembering that on September 11 of last year, the Board of Immigration Appeals of the United States Department of Justice issued a ruling according to which the I-220A form is considered conditional parole and is legally distinct from freedom under humanitarian parole, which prevents those born in the largest of the Antilles from regularizing their immigration status under the aforementioned Cuban Adjustment Act, leaving them in a legal limbo.
