The United States Coast Guard deported 30 rafters to the island on Thursday aboard the ship William Trump. These people, the agency specified through their social networks, were intercepted off the Bahamas earlier this week.
The US authorities reiterated to people who try to arrive by sea irregularly in South Florida to desist from their intention because they will be deported. Since October 1 of last year, the Coast Guard has frustrated the landing of more than 6,200 Cuban rafters and has returned 2,387 people to the island in more than three months.
In the first week of April, the maritime unit repatriated 396 migrants of different nationalities intercepted on the high seas between March 31 and April 7.
The Government of Washington implemented at the beginning of 2023 a policy to welcome 30,000 migrants per month from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In the first week of April, the US Coast Guard repatriated 396 migrants of different nationalities intercepted on the high seas between March 31 and April 7.
In parallel, it has immediately expelled undocumented immigrants from those countries who try to cross the southern border into its territory irregularly to Mexico. The Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for its part, agreed to admit 30,000 migrants per month who are returned from US territory.
This Thursday the Island’s Ministry of the Interior reported that this year there are already 3,238 Cubans returned by various countries. This figure still did not consider the 30 people deported from Florida.
In the last two days, the governments of the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas deported six and 44 Cubans, respectively, the report specified.
It was also noted that two of the returned Cubans were on probation for serving criminal sanctions at the time they illegally left the island. These people were “placed at the disposal of the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit.”
Another of the migrants, detailed the Ministry of the Interior, “was arrested because he was circulated by the police” for allegedly participating in “a criminal act that is being investigated.”
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