No-one wants Cuban sailor
NZPA-AP Miami A Cuban sailor has travelled to Morocco, Spain, and the Canary Islands since being told he carries the A.I.D.S. virus, and now is stuck in detention in the United States, unwanted by any nation. Miguel Landin is one of more than 200 illegal aliens who have been detained by immigration authorities in Florida after testing positive for the A.I.D.S. virus.
Landin, once a 104 kg body builder, grew up in Havana, graduated from a school for merchant seamen in 1981 and jumped ship in the Canary Islands in 1983.
He worked there for three years as a ship’s pilot but couldn’t get a legal residence. After a blood test after a bout of hepatitis, Mr Landin was taken into custody and placed on an Iberia Airlines flight to Miami on November 3, 1987.
“They told me, ‘You are not permitted to stay here. Go to Miami. You go to Miami because there are many Cubans’,” Mr Landin said. Richard Smith of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (1.N.5.) says Spain illegally sent Mr Landin to the United States.
The I.N.S. granted Landin a tourist visa last October and bought him a SUS9SO ($1532) one-way ticket to Casablanca. An I.N.S. agent flew with him to New York and watched him board a non-stop flight to North Africa. Mr Landin says he took a ferry to the Spanish port of Algeciras the next day without waiting for the required paper work and was sent back on the same ferry. Two days later, he flew from Casablanca to. his old home in the Canary Islands but was quickly sent on to Miami again. Mr Landin now weighs 69kg and is being held in the medical ward at the Miami Federal Detention Centre.
“I cry every day. I cannot eat,” he said.
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