As a workaround, many families opt to send their child with a parent or relative who can travel, enabling grandparents to meet the youngster. Laura acknowledges this, concluding that despite everything, sending the child is “the ultimate act of love” an emigrant mother can offer her family back on the island. Laura ends her video with an open question to her community, encapsulating everything: “Let me know in the comments if your little ones have already gone to Cuba or if you also feel that you need to send them, but deep down you don’t want to.”