
{"id":324993,"date":"2025-06-27T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=324993"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:03:34","slug":"heidy-sanchez-after-two-months-without-hugging-her-daughter-theres-nothing-concrete-to-resolve-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/heidy-sanchez-after-two-months-without-hugging-her-daughter-theres-nothing-concrete-to-resolve-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidy S\u00e1nchez after two months without hugging her daughter: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing concrete to resolve the case\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two months have passed since Heidy S\u00e1nchez attended an immigration appointment that would turn her life and that of her family into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/deported-and-without-her-baby-daughter-heidy-sanchezs-desperation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>a nightmare that continues to this day<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and still shows no clear sign of being over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the second time, Heidy welcomes the <\/span><b>OnCuba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> team and describes the progress being made to reunite this family, scarred by the Trump administration\u2019s harsh anti-immigrant policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than sixty long days have passed since her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter was literally snatched from her arms. Heidy was subjected to expedited deportation proceedings that brought her back to her home country in 48 hours, after six years of living in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oJaYax4SZf\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/deported-and-without-her-baby-daughter-heidy-sanchezs-desperation\/\">Deported and without her baby daughter: Heidy S\u00e1nchez\u2019s desperation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Deported and without her baby daughter: Heidy S\u00e1nchez\u2019s desperation&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/deported-and-without-her-baby-daughter-heidy-sanchezs-desperation\/embed\/#?secret=bzEqPCKFNM#?secret=oJaYax4SZf\" data-secret=\"oJaYax4SZf\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot has happened during this time, but in this case, nothing concrete,\u201d Heidy tells us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The young woman appears thinner, seemingly calmer, but tears appear as soon as she begins to talk about her little girl, and her answers are more concise. The emotional exhaustion takes its toll, and it\u2019s evident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only thing that keeps me alive, breathing, is the hope of being with my little girl. I have to hold on to that faith,\u201d she tells us, while repeatedly, again and again, the phrase \u201cwe are waiting\u201d, accompanying her words with sighs.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_324997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324997\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324997\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_02-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, her lawyer and her husband are pursuing two processes in the United States that are, for now, their only hope of being together again; one of them made progress earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOn June 6, my husband finally had an appointment with immigration, where they approved his family petition. We\u2019re waiting for the date for my interview here at the embassy in Cuba, which involves requesting two pardons. It\u2019s up to me to convince the consul to pardon me for entering the United States illegally and see if they accept me,\u201d she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe other thing is a humanitarian visa. My lawyer wanted to handle both processes together, to see which of the two could be faster. Right now, they\u2019re both there, but they\u2019re also far away. I think the family petition would be the safest, but the longest. The humanitarian visa could be a little faster for the girl, due to her condition, but it depends on them,\u201d Heidy summarizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325003\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-325003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-2-1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-2-1-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little girl and her mother communicate via video call. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tireless efforts they\u2019re making amid an unfavorable context in which, as they anticipated from the beginning, they are focused on trying to alleviate the situation of the most affected: their little girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe little girl is very upset right now. My husband and the grandmother don\u2019t know how to calm her down anymore. She doesn\u2019t want to eat, she doesn\u2019t want to sleep anymore, not at midday or at night. I used to sing to her and managed to put her to sleep, but it\u2019s now two and three in the morning, and the little girl is still awake. She screams all the time, cries all the time. She doesn\u2019t want to drink bottled milk anymore. They are going through some difficult days right now and are afraid that she will become upset and have a repeat seizure,\u201d says Heidy.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_324999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324999\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324999\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_05-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe doesn\u2019t want her hair done, because her mom was the one who did her hair, her mom was the one who chose the things for her hair. Right now, she\u2019s completely rejecting everything. She doesn\u2019t know, she doesn\u2019t understand why her mom isn\u2019t there. She just calls me \u2018Mom,\u2019 and she answers herself: <em>working\u201d,<\/em> alluding to the excuse they\u2019ve used to try to keep the girl calm, who is already receiving psychological care for the effects of her mother\u2019s absence on her health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Cuba, Heidy has also decided to remain in psychological treatment because, \u201cNow that I see the girl\u2019s situation, I\u2019m even more upset,\u201d she tells us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything has gone through my mind. Just yesterday, I was telling my husband\u2019s family that if I could run, if I could run across that sea right now, I would do it. I wouldn\u2019t care at all, because the girl was crying, she wouldn\u2019t stop, she wouldn\u2019t eat, she couldn\u2019t be comforted. And here I am with my hands tied, unable to do anything. The shock is severe for me, but it\u2019s even more severe for her. She can\u2019t adapt, she misses me, and she doesn\u2019t know how to express it,\u201d she says, and it\u2019s clear that desperation is speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325002\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325002\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-1-1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nina-Heidy-Sanchez-1-1-144x300.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little girl and her mother communicate via video call. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTime doesn\u2019t go by; time is eternal. It\u2019s counting the minutes to talk, to see if she\u2019s had lunch, if she\u2019s had her milk, if her hair has been combed, if she\u2019s been bathed, all the time keeping an eye on the little girl\u2019s things. In the afternoons, I do a bit of exercise at home, to tire myself out, to try to de-stress, which is impossible, but oh well\u2026,\u201d is how she sums up her days, which now pass on the outskirts of Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_324998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324998\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324998\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_04-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow I\u2019m in San Jos\u00e9. I left Havana, and I\u2019m going to be here for a while. In Havana, everyone was there, and I didn\u2019t have much space. And the house wasn\u2019t ours either,\u201d she explains her decision, which in turn has allowed her access to a better internet connection and made it easier to communicate with her husband and daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her story, unfortunately, is not unique. Several Latin American parents have been separated from their children through the relentless deportation policy implemented by the Donald Trump administration, which is causing real terror in the Latino community in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News of other Cubans, men and women who have suffered or fear the same fate as Heidy, has also been making headlines in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325000\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325000\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_06-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen that they continue to arrest, that the raids continue, and that they continue to separate families. Coincidentally, a young woman wrote to my husband. She has a two-month-old daughter, and something similar happened to her. Her appointment was rescheduled, and she\u2019s very nervous about what might happen,\u201d she says when we ask her how up-to-date she is with everything that\u2019s happening in this regard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat breaks my heart. I experienced it firsthand, and it\u2019s very difficult. It\u2019s very difficult to be separated from what you love most in life. It shouldn\u2019t be like this. I happened to see the interview, and she said that they were even taking away her right to be a mother. I spent so many years trying to get pregnant, and they separated me from my daughter. I put myself in the shoes of all those mothers, and I\u2019m living it here and know it\u2019s very hard. It shouldn\u2019t be like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to everything Heidy and her family have experienced, they have had to deal with the media coverage of her case, which has sparked a series of reactions, opinions and stances of all kinds.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_324996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324996\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324996\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Heidy_Otma_01-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>What do you say to the people who have had a word of encouragement for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThank you to all those people, thank you for the encouragement, for the strength you give us, both my husband and I. We read everything, and all we can say is thank you for the support, because it\u2019s truly been a lot, and we\u2019ve felt it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To those who don\u2019t?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo those who don\u2019t, we still thank you. I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re like this, why they prefer to criticize, why they prefer to offend, but that\u2019s their thinking, and who am I to judge them or tell them anything. It\u2019s their opinion, period. It doesn\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs a community, we should have a little more empathy. I\u2019ll leave that as homework for them. It\u2019s not my place to deal with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than sixty long days have passed since her little girl was literally snatched from her arms while she was being subjected to expedited deportation proceedings to Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12346284,"featured_media":324995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13944],"tags":[14862,22223,19256,35003],"ppma_author":[34967],"class_list":["post-324993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba-usa","tag-cuba-us","tag-cuban-immigrants","tag-featured","tag-heidy-sanchez","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heidy S\u00e1nchez after two months without hugging 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