Exiled activist Yuri Valle Roca in danger of being deported to Cuba after cancellation of Parole

The Cuban political expreasing Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, exiled in the United States, could be deported to Cuba after receiving a notification of the termination of his humanitarian parole.

«Well, brothers, friends and followers, who Sádica becomes life sometimes, want to return us to death but faith in God our Father and in all our brothers and friends. If they return me to my beloved homeland I will enter, as always, shouting #abajoladictaduracubana,» wrote the activist on Facebook.

Valle Roca published a photo of the official notification he received from the US Department of National Security (DHS), in which he is informed that he must leave the country before April 25, 2025, after the cancellation of his permanence permit under probation.

Speaking to the Independent Middle Cubanet, the Cuban said that he arrived in the United States with his wife, also the activist Eradilis Frómeta, on June 5, 2024, and have not been able to do the procedures to regularize their status as permanent residents for reasons beyond their will.

«We have two months left to apply to the Cuban adjustment law and, in addition, we were canceled the work permits,» he explained.

After three years in prison, at the beginning of June, an expedited release led Valle Roca, in a few hours, from the Maximum Combined Severity prison of the East, in Havana, to exile.

«It has been a lot of torture They have done me, «he said in statements to the press upon his arrival in the United States.

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) on Saturday made an urgent call to US authorities to revoke the notification of the DHS that puts the independent Cuban journalist in danger of deportation.

In a publication on its social networks, the organization said it was alarmed by this situation and recalled that Valle Roca left Cuba under humanitarian probation, after serving almost three years in prison for publishing what the Cuban authorities consider as «enemy propaganda.»

Arrested on June 15, 2021, after filming several activists who launched octavillas with Martian phrases in a street in Havana, the Cuban opponent was sentenced in July 2022 to five years in prison for the alleged crimes of «resistance and enemy propaganda of a continuous nature.»

The US government He rejected the conviction To the Cuban journalist. «Journalism is not a crime. Informing about the reality of Cuba is not an enemy propaganda,» said Washington’s embassy in Havana in a post on their social networks.

A Executive order President Donald Trump ended the humanitarian parole program last January. The initiative, adopted during the administration of its predecessor, Joe Biden, allowed up to 30 thousand migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the United States each month. The program benefited around 531,690 immigrants, including 110,240 Cubans, according to official figures.

Migrants who receive a notification of revocation of their parole are voluntarily urged from the United States. If not, they will be subject to an expedited deportation procedure.

Last February, the United States ordered A pause In all immigration requests submitted by immigrants from Latin America and Ukraine who entered the country under certain programs during the administration of former president Joe Biden, including humanitarian parole.

The US immigration authorities then said that the suspension will be maintained indefinitely, while working to identify possible cases of fraud and improve research procedures to mitigate concerns related to national security and public safety.