Havana/This Thursday, Cuba received a flight with 139 irregular migrants deported by the United States, just two weeks after having arrived the previouswhich in turn was also delayed seven days. Next Thursday the Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated in the United States and it is not a working day.
As they usually do every month, the official media reported the arrival of the deportation flight to Havana, which occurs “in compliance with bilateral migration agreements.”
In this operation, the eleventh by air registered so far this year from the United States, 109 men and 39 women were returned, he explained. Granma. One of the returned people “was detained because he was on parole at the time of illegally leaving the country,” the newspaper added.
The Cuban authorities specified that so far there have been 52 returns of Cuban migrants from different nations in the region this year, totaling 1,535 people.
One of the returned people “was detained because he was on parole at the time of illegally leaving the country”
Likewise, they stressed that they ratify “their commitment to regular, safe and orderly migration,” while warning about the danger and life-threatening conditions that illegal departures from the country represent.
The Governments of Cuba and the United States have a bilateral agreement so that all migrants who arrive by sea in the United States are deported to the Caribbean country.
On the other hand, deportation flights that had been suspended since 2020 were resumed at the end of April 2023, mainly for Cubans considered “inadmissible” after being detained on the border with Mexico.
According to data from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), during the 2024 fiscal period a total of 217,615 Cubans arrived in that country, bringing the figure for the last four years to more than 860,000.
In recent years, Cuba has registered an unprecedented migratory exodus due to the serious economic crisis it is suffering, with shortages of food, medicine and fuel, rampant inflation, frequent and prolonged power outages and a partial dollarization of the economy, in addition to the repression exercised by the regime on citizens who peacefully protest.
