(EFE) .
These last migrants had participated in several illegal exits from the country and were later intercepted at sea by the US Coast Guard, who handed them over to the Cuban authorities through the port of Orozco, in Artemisa.
With this group, made up of 35 men and 7 women, there are 2,659 Cuban rafters returned by that service in 43 operations during 2023, the Ministry specifies.
Two of the deported people are now detained on the island for being considered “as alleged perpetrators of serious criminal acts” that were under investigation before leaving the country, the note added.
Two others “were on probation for compliance with criminal sanctions, at the time of illegally leaving the country and will be made available to the courts for the revocation of said benefit.”
It also refers that two others “were on probation for compliance with criminal sanctions, at the time of illegally leaving the country and will be made available to the courts for the revocation of said benefit.”
The Cuban authorities stressed that they remain “firm” in their commitment to “regular, safe, and orderly migration,” and warned of “the danger and life-threatening conditions that illegal departures from the country by sea represent.”
Cuba received the previous week three other groups of 27, 66 and 24 irregular migrants returned from the United States, two by the Coast Guard and another was the second flight after the recent resumption of deportations by air between the two countries that had remained suspended. since December 2020.
In addition, both countries agreed last November to resume deportation flights for “inadmissible” migrants held at the border with Mexico.
According to the Customs and Border Protection Office, in December 2022 more than 44,000 Cubans arrived at US border points for a cumulative 313,488 who have arrived since January of that year.
So far in 2023, Cuba has also received repatriated migrants from the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
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