‘It’s been brutal’: Cubans caught in crosshairs of Trump’s deportation push

Cubans, once fast-tracked to US residency, now find themselves targets of Trump's immigration crackdown

When Rosaly Estevez self-deported" from Miami to Havana last November, US immigration officers bid farewell by removing her ankle monitor. The 32-year-old had been told she was about to be detained, so she left with her three-year-old son, Dylan, a US citizen.

Heidy Sanchez, 43, wasn't given a choice. She was forcibly removed from Florida last April but, worrying about Cuba's failing healthcare system, she left her two-year-old daughter, Kaylin, behind with her American husband, Carlos.