MIAMI, United States. — Without money and without hope. So have the migrants Cubans who have been returned to Mexico since the new immigration policy announced on January 5 by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, came into force.
Although migrants who remain in Mexico have the possibility of applying for a humanitarian parole to enter US territory, most of them do not even have money to sustain themselves temporarily in the Aztec country.
Jorge Luis García Fuentes, a Cuban resident in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora state, revealed to CubaNet that some 160 Cubans have arrived in that town since Washington ordered to restrict the passage of migrants at the border.
The Cubans who have arrived in Hermosillo are sheltering in tents inside a sports complex.
After personally exchanging with several of them, García Fuentes pointed out that these migrants have gone through an indescribable ordeal and that they have been robbed of their savings by police and guards at checkpoints.
The source hopes that the Cubans will receive some kind of help, since in Sonora there is “a very large Cuban community of people who have been sports instructors, artists.”
Officials from the National Institute of Migration (INM) have indicated in recent days that migrants who entered through Texas are being expelled by Sonoyta. They arrive at the immigration station and from there they are transferred to the shelter in Hermosillo, where they are offered comprehensive care, as well as food and clothing donated by civil society.
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