Meet the Cubans stuck in Mexico under Donald Trump’s deportation campaign

'Like we were dogs'

For Scull Delgado, life in the US began with the famous Mariel boatlift, a 1980 exodus that saw some 125,000 Cubans pile onto small, rickety boats and sail across the Florida Strait.

Many were fleeing political persecution. Others had grown desperate as a result of the island's economic strife. Scull Delgado said he join...