Randa Abdel-Fattah
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These were Cubans who did commit crimes, either before or after they arrived, and some who had mental health problems.
couldn't deport them because Fidel Castro refused to take them back.
didn't want them to stay either.
So they sat in Oakdale in a kind of limbo.
We're still talking with the inmates.
Just yesterday, negotiators were confident they'd reached an agreement.
All that was missing were Cuban signatures on a dotted line.
Today, those signatures are still missing.
Federal authorities plan to wait out the Cuban.
The hostages were freed after the Cubans were promised that the U.S.
government would review everyone's cases.
And one of the sheriffs that gets a call from the U.S.
government is Sheriff Bill Belt.
That's it for this week's show.
I'm Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Thanks to Jonathan Bastian for their voiceover work.