In US, thousands of Cuban migrants who arrived legally fear deportation

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Cubans, who have historically received preferential treatment from the US, have not been spared by President Donald Trump's war on immigration. The US has ended family reunification and legal immigration from Cuba by adding the island to its travel ban. It has also suspended temporary protection programmes, exposing thousands of people who arrived legally to deportation to a country suffering from severe US sanctions and crippling electricity blackouts.

The Trump administration's rollback of immigration pathways for Cubans in the US is the most dramatic since the Cold War. And yet the Cuban community is one of the US president's most passionate support bases.

FRANCE 24's Fanny Allard and Wassim Cornet report from Florida.