"Under my administration, we have taken decisive action to stand with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," President Donald Trump said at the White House in 2017. "The same failed communist ideology that has brought oppression to Cuba has brought nothing but suffering and misery everywhere and every place it has been anywhere in the world. Communism is the past. Freedom is the future."
Communism should indeed be a thing of the past—but a recent immigration policy from Trump's second administration threatens to trap its victims there.
