Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Florida

Is it true that cubans that were in prison for a drug case and facing a deportation will be put back in prison untill cuba take them, even known they paid for there mistake and been out for example ten years without problems and with respect to the law.


Asked on 6/27/11, 10:06 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

Immigrants who are ordered removed from the U.S. but whose countries will not take them back are held in federal custody. Most of the people currently in that situation are Cubans.

You are right that many of them are criminals who have completed their prison terms. But that does not entitle them to stay in the U.S. if they have been properly ordered to leave the country. Similarly-situated immigrants from other countries are deported at the end of their prison terms. Treating the ones from Cuba more favorably would not be just, and it would give other countries an incentive to refuse the return of their citizens the way Cuba now does.

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Answered on 6/28/11, 11:58 am


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