A hundred Cuban irregular migrants It was returned this Thursday from the United States, on the ninth deportation flight from that country so far this year.
In total there were 136 Cubans returned in this aerial operation: 125 men and 11 women. With them there are already 999 migrants returned to Cuba by US authorities in 2025, According to an official note Published in El Diario Granma.
As has happened on previous occasions, the statement points out that four of the repatriated yesterday “were transferred to the investigation body for being as alleged commissioners of criminal acts before leaving the country.”
The report does not reveal the identity of these four people or that of the rest of the deportees. However, unofficial media claim that on the flight of yesterday the exjudueza Melody González would have returned to Cuba, who had been in custody of the US immigration authorities for more than a year.
The exjudue, who arrived in the US through the humanitarian parole, had requested political asylum after the entrance to that country was denied. González was pointed out by his political past in Cuba and for issuing sentences against four crosswalks, Villa Clara, accused of launching Molotov cocktails without sufficient evidence, according to organizations and independent media.
With this Thursday they add 37 returns from Cuban migrants this year from different countries of the region. 1140 people have returned to these operations.
To the use of this type of notes, the issued yesterday ratifies the “commitment to a regular, safe and orderly migration” by the Cuban authorities, which in turn “reiterate the danger and the conditions of risk for life that represent the illegal exits of the country.”
According to data from the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP in English) of the United States, cited by the agency EFEduring fiscal period 2024 a total of 217 615 Cubans arrived in that country, which elevates more than 860,000 the figure of the last four years.
According to immigration authorities themselves, last December more than 42 thousand Cubans with deportation orders remained in US territory.
On the other hand, according to the Cuban authorities last year, 93 return operations from the United States and other countries in the region took place, in which 1384 irregular migrants were returned, at a time when the island crosses an unprecedented immigration exodus.
