2 cuban actors seek asylum in us
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2 Cuban actors seek asylum in US

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Two Cuban amateur actors – cast members of an award-winning film – disappeared en route to New York for a film festival and have emerged in Miami, saying they will apply for political asylum in the United States. “In Cuba, we were talking about it, to stay,” actor Javier Nunez Florian told the Miami-based, Spanish-language channel America TeVe in an interview that aired late on Friday, appearing alongside actress Anailin de la Rua. On a stopover in Miami on their flight on Wednesday from Havana to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival, the pair, both aged 20, slipped away from their traveling companions and fled to the home of De la Rua’s uncle in the city. “We wanted to stay and fight and help our parents that way,” Nunez Florian pointed out. He added that living and working in America had been a “dream” of theirs for a long time. “We are ready to do any work that is available,” said Nunez Florian. Immigration attorney Wilfredo Allen said the pair would apply for political asylum in the United States within 10 days, and that they had a “very high chance” of getting their request approved. “To seek political asylum does not mean they have been victims of political persecution in Cuba,” Allen said, “but they defected.” According to the lawyer, if they returned to Cuba, the actors could be considered “traitors” and could possibly suffer repression by the communist regime. “There is a very high chance they will get asylum, as the United States has previously granted asylum under the same circumstances to dancers, singers and athletes who defected from Cuba,” he added. Cuban nationals coming to the United States can legalise their status in the country through the Cuban Adjustment Act, which allows petitioners to get “green cards” after they had been physically present in the United States for at least one year. But Allen argued that the political asylum option will allow his clients to get work permits much quicker. The film Una Noche (One Night) tells the story of three teenagers trying to make the dangerous ocean passage from Cuba to Florida in a homemade raft, a plot that drew comparisons with the decision the two actors later made. The film’s third main actor travelled on to the renowned festival to receive an award for his role, which he had been set share with Nunez. “I’m happy for me, I’m happy for them,” Dariel Arrechada told AFP after getting the Best Actor award on Thursday. The short film also scooped the Best New Director and Best Cinematography gongs from among six awards given out during the competition. Since 1966, Cubans have been granted automatic residence if they make it to the United States from the communist-ruled island, and thousands attempt the voyage every year, often navigating shark-infested waters in rickety boats.

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