The son of a Baptist pastor from Cuba, who has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since June 2026, is at risk of deportation after his request for permanent residency was denied on 20 October by a judge in California.
CSW is calling for Daniel Arcadis Solano Jaume to be permitted to remain in the US with his family as he would be at serious risk of imprisonment or forcible induction into the Cuban military were he to be forced to return.
Mr. Solano Jaume entered the United States on 30 August 2023 legally with his parents and sister, having fled Cuba in March 2023 after Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces officers attempted to remove Mr. Solano Jaume from his home in order to register him for military service. This was despite the fact that he was 15 at the time and well under the stipulated minimum age of 17 for the military service required of young men under Cuban law.
Mr. Solano Jaume, who turned 18 on 20 July 2025, was detained on 25 June 2026 in Miami, Florida after being stopped by police for a minor traffic violation. He was later transferred to the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California.
His father, Arcadis Solano Silvera, who was a member of the Baptist Convention of Eastern Cuba and pastored a church in Santiago de Cuba, has a decades-long, documented history of being targeted by the Cuban government. He was repeatedly threatened with the destruction or forced closure of his church and was assigned a State Security agent who monitored his movements, harassed him and, on multiple occasions, detained him for interrogation. The day after the attempted removal of his son to register him for military service, his assigned State Security agent, a lieutenant who used the pseudonym ‘Anais’, sent repeated text messages to Reverend Solano Silvera.
In an effort to protect his son, Reverend Solano Silvera and his wife, Yadely Jaume Martin, made the decision to flee Cuba, flying first to Jamaica, then traveling on to the Dominican Republic. They arrived in Mexico in July 2023, where they began the online process, in use by US Border Control at the time, to register for an appointment before entering the US. Following an appointment in Nogales, Arizona in August 2023, they were permitted entry and they filed for residency in the US under the Cuban Adjustment Act in September 2024.
Anna Lee Stangl, CSW’s Advocacy Director, said ‘I have known Reverend Arcadis Solano Silvera and his wife, Yadely Jaume Martin, personally for over twenty years. During that time, he and his wife endured unrelenting Cuban government harassment, repeated threats, and short term arbitrary detention. CSW documented over fifty such incidents of violations of freedom of religion or belief experienced by Reverend Solano Silvera, his family, and the churches he was leading. They only took the decision to leave Cuba in order to save their underage child from being forcibly registered for military service with the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces and they were grateful to receive sanctuary in the United States. Given the circumstances of their flight from Cuba, we have grave concerns about the safety of Daniel Arcadis Solano Jaume, were he to be deported from the United States. We respectfully call on the US government, to reconsider his detention and to permit him to return to his parents and sister.’
Further details:
Reverend Arcadis Solano Silvera has released the following detailed statement:
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