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Gloria Estefan Says She Now Carries Her Passport Over U.S. Immigration Fears

The Cuban-born singer tells The Times she sees Trump’s immigration crackdown echoing tactics her family fled in Castro’s Cuba.

Overview

  • Estefan said she keeps a U.S. passport card with her at all times "just in case," despite having lived in the country for decades.
  • She reported knowing legally present people who were detained, citing a woman who lived in the U.S. for 25 years and spent five months in a detention center after an immigration appointment.
  • The four-time Grammy winner said she has never seen freedoms erode as they are now, drawing a direct comparison to her experience leaving Cuba.
  • She expressed concern that people can be stopped for speaking Spanish or having darker skin, referencing a Supreme Court ruling as she understands it.
  • While saying immigration should be legal and organized, she condemned family separations and accounts of migrants being mistreated, including women thrown to the ground in front of children.