Ricardo Scull Delgado, Ernesto Perez Chapman, and Lazaro Diaz Garcia, all in their 70s, have been stuck in Palenque, Mexico, since December. They were part of an exodus of refugees fleeing hardship and repression in Cuba in 1980 and were expelled from the US as part of Trump's deportation push.
The men were piled onto a bus in Arizona and driven south for three days straight until they reached Palenque, a town close to Mexico's border with Guatemala. They claim their deportation wasn't legal and that they were treated inhumanely.
Over 4,000 Cuban citizens have been deported from the US to Mexico since Trump took office, with many being left in limbo abroad, with no means of supporting themselves. The US Department of Homeland Security has not commented on the matter, but a researcher with Human Rights Watch believes the deportations violate the detainees' right to appeal.
