Cubans residing in the United States are facing a migration policy that instills persecution and fear, marked by arbitrary deportations and threats of bank account closures or freezes, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla denounced.

According to various press reports, U.S. banks sent notifications to Cuban clients requiring them to comply with additional verification protocols, including updates to their immigration status.

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The measures are widely seen as tied both to the six-decade U.S. blockade and to the Trump administration’s renewed hard line on immigration. Within the Cuban-U.S. community, the prospect of frozen accounts or restricted access to savings has sparked growing alarm.

Rodriguez Parrilla further rebuked segments of the Cuban diaspora that fuel irregular migration for political leverage, favors, and financial gain. Havana argues that Washington has weaponized migration, using it as a political pressure tool that directly harms Cuban nationals living in the United States.

Los cubanos que viven en #EEUU sufren la persecución y el miedo que infunde la actual política migratoria del gobierno de ese país.

No sólo enfrentan el riesgo de ser deportados de forma arbitraria. Ahora encaran la amenaza de perder o ver congeladas sus cuentas bancarias.

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— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) December 8, 2025

Trump’s Anti-Migrants Policies

Since Trump began his second term in January 2025, the administration has sharply slowed residency and naturalization cases while ramping up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and deportation orders targeting undocumented migrants.

Videos circulating on social media show ICE officers using force during operations, and civil rights groups report human rights abuses inside detention centers, including deaths.

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