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Of these last migrants, 74 are rafters (66 men and eight women) returned by the US Coast Guard (USCG) through the port of Orozco, in the western province of Artemisa.
This group brings together participants in three illegal departures from the Island by sea and later intercepted by the US Coast Guard, according to the official note.
Since last October 1 – which marks the beginning of the current fiscal year – the US Coast Guard has intercepted more than 6,200 Cuban rafters, according to their data.
This group brings together participants in three illegal departures from the Island by sea and later intercepted by the US Coast Guard.
On this day, a group of 17 men, five women and one minor who had left Cuba illegally were also returned, but by air from the Bahamas to the Havana airport.
Three of the people returned in these two operations are being held for allegedly committing “serious criminal acts that were being investigated since before they became involved in these illegal departures,” the report said.
It also details that three other migrants were on probation for compliance with criminal sanctions when they left the island and “they will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit” and that “one was escaped from a center where he was serving criminal sanction”.
The Cuban authorities stressed that they remain “firm” in their commitment to “regular, safe and orderly migration,” while warning about “the danger and life-threatening conditions represented by illegal departures from the country by sea, as well as the irresponsible involvement of minors.
Cuba received this week another two groups of 27 and 66 irregular migrants returned from the United States, the first by sea and the other was the second flight after the recent resumption of deportations by air between the two countries, which had been suspended since December year 2020.
Cuba and the US have a bilateral agreement so that all migrants who arrive by sea are returned to the island.
Both countries agreed last November to resume deportation flights for “inadmissible” migrants held at the border with Mexico
In addition, both countries agreed last November to resume deportation flights for “inadmissible” migrants held at the border with Mexico.
According to data from the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP), in December 2022 more than 44,000 Cubans arrived at US border points, for a cumulative total of 313,488 who arrived since January of that year.
The Government of Washington promulgated a new rule that restricts access to asylum on the border with Mexico and has replaced Title 42, a Trump administration rule that allowed the immediate return of migrants under cover of a possible spread of the coronavirus.
The regulation – one of the measures that already governs the border between Mexico and the United States – qualifies migrants who cross the border irregularly and who have not requested protection in a third country during their stay as “unfit” to request asylum. crossing to the US, government officials explained.
So far in 2023, Cuba has also received returned migrants from the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
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