Havana, Cuba
CNN
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In a dilapidated home on the outskirts of Havana, Heidy Sánchez shows off photos from a past life.
She flips though images on her iPhone of visits to Sea World with her husband and 17-month-old daughter and the couple dressing up in Santa attire for Christmas.
“I don’t know if it was the American dream,” Sánchez said. “But it was my dream, my family.”
That dream and family were ripped away in late April when Sánchez was deported from Florida to her native Cuba, even though both her daughter and husband are US citizens.
Sánchez crossed into the US from Mexico in 2019 when the first Trump…
