I am not a fan of the right-wing Cuban exiles. However, when it looks like the Trump administration is throwing out an exile who has lived here for over a half-century for what appears to be bogus reasons, yeah, it’s unnerving.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has again denied permanent residence to Ramón Saúl Sánchez, leader of the Democracy Movement and a prominent member of the Cuban exile community in Miami.

Sánchez is now in an immigration limbo and could be deported to Cuba, which he left as a child 52 years ago.

“Sadly, I report to you that the U.S. government has denied me residence with a 17-page list of justifications. I am grateful for the 52 years lived in this generous land which I have come to love like my other homeland. I will continue my fight for a free Cuba,” Sánchez wrote on his Twitter account Monday.

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When Sánchez and his brother landed at Miami International Airport in 1967, he was allowed entry under parole, a special immigration category for refugees. Sánchez never changed his status to permanent resident under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act. Like many other Cubans of his generation, he believed that assuming a new citizenship was betraying the cause of Cuban freedom.

miamiherald.com

If memory serves, up until fairly recently you couldn’t hold dual citizenship as a US citizen. Now you can, but apparently that doesn’t help this guy. But yet again, here we are, throwing someone out who has lived here most of his life.