(9 Jun 2025)
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Miami – 9 June 2025
1. Passengers leaving from international arrivals
2. Child holding sign welcoming grandparents
3. Women hugging
4. Balloons
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roseli Tejas, green card holder traveling from Cuba:
"In my case, right now the line wasn’t that long, there wasn’t any attention inside. Everything is fine. When we arrived, there were not a lot of people. We were just going through the line. No one was asking questions. I didn’t feel stress or anything."
6. Woman with wheelchair pointing
7. Sign of international arrivals
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alexis Gerardo Alvarez Diez, green card holder traveling from Cuba:
“I’m affected by the ban because I can’t bring my wife and son, who I had filed a claim for, and since they won’t be given visas, they can no longer travel to the United States."
9. Passengers arriving
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Bastien, U.S. citizen traveling from Haiti, business owner in North Miami:
"I met people with green cards, people with visas (on the flight from Haiti), they travelled, they don’t have any problems. But I don’t have any problem — I’m a US citizen, I respect myself, no matter what this is the best country in the world.”
11. Close, cross
12. Couple waiting with balloons
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Bastien, U.S. citizen traveling from Haiti, business owner in North Miami:
“Right now, the way the politics (is) all over the world, we need tough leaders to govern this country. So the ban is good, one way, because the way we have all those gangs in Haiti, they (the United States) want the government (of Haiti) to take responsibility, to make sure they govern properly, to screen the Haitian citizens who come from Haiti. The United States want to know exactly what type of people (are) coming in this country. So I don’t have any problem with that."
14. Woman looking at arrivals board
15. Wide woman looking at arrivals board
16. Family walking
STORYLINE:
Travelers to Miami International Airport on Monday, the day a new travel ban entered into force, reported a calm and orderly process at customs.
Passengers with U.S. passports, permanent residence, and tourist visas all said they passed customs and border control with ease, even on flights from countries on the travel ban list, like Haiti and Cuba.
"When we arrived, there were not a lot of people. We were just going through the line. No one was asking questions. I didn’t feel stress or anything," said Roseli Tejas, a permanent resident traveling from Cuba.
Some expressed concern that the travel ban, which limits the issuance of new visas, would prevent them from reuniting with their families.
“I’m affected by the ban because I can’t bring my wife and son, who I had filed a claim for, and since they won’t be given visas, they can no longer travel to the United States," said Alexis Gerardo Alvarez Diez, a permanent resident traveling from Cuba.
Meanwhile, other passengers said they supported the travel ban because it would increase the country’s security.
Miami Roland Bastien went to Haiti for three weeks and when he returned to south Florida on Monday he did not see or experience anything unusual, he said. Bastien, who is originally from Haiti, is a U.S. citizen who supports the travel restrictions. “The ban is good,” said the businessman, owner of a tire shop and a restaurant in Miami. “The United States want to know exactly what type of people are coming in this country. I don’t have any problem with that.”
AP video by Daniel Kozin
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