‘I really feel that I am alive now’

losangelesblade.com:

CUTLER BAY, Fla. – A Los Angeles Blade reporter from Cuba who was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody last week says he can now live without fear of persecution. “I really feel that I am alive now,” Yariel Valdés González told the Blade on Sunday from the Miami suburb of Cutler Bay where he now lives with his aunt, María Valdés and his uncle, Julio Valdés. “It is a wonderful feeling to feel free and to be able to take control of your life and above all knowing that you will not be persecuted again because of your ideas or your work.” Valdés, 29, entered the U.S.

on March 27, 2019, through the Calexico West Port of Entry between California’s Imperial Valley and the Mexican city of Mexicali.