A group of around 150 Cubans was repatriated to the island this Monday on a flight that took off from Miami International Airport, in the first return of this type, by air from the United States, in two years. According to Univisión 23 journalist Mario Vallejo, these people were at the Krome Processing Center run by the Immigration and Customs Control Service.
“At least four buses left Krome for the airport,” said the communicator through a video uploaded to their social networks. “Since 8 in the morning they were in the airport ship.”
Vallejo said that some relatives of these Cubans confirmed to him from the Island that they were visited by personnel from the Ministry of the Interior to ask them “if they could receive” the repatriates and that this process would take place in the next few hours, however this “was today.” , stressed the journalist.
Meanwhile, América TeVé reporter Mario J. Pentón confirmed that the group of migrants arrived in Havana, but that they have not been able to travel to their respective destinations, due to the fuel crisis that affects the entire island. “Apparently they do not have gasoline to transport those from the provinces” and the Havanans “are expected to be released in the next few hours.” . He reiterated that neither the Cuban regime nor the US government have spoken.
Last Saturday, relatives of several Cubans detained in South Florida demonstrated in Miami to demand the release of those who entered through the southern US border or by sea and lost their credible fear interviews.
immigration attorney, Miguel Inda Romero, told Univisión 23, who had as an alternative “what is called a deportation strike, since some of them have relatives who are residents or citizens who could make requests for them, or simply be released, under supervision as there are more than forty thousand Cubans”.
Last Saturday, relatives of several Cubans detained in South Florida demonstrated in Miami to demand the release of those who entered through the southern border of the United States or by sea.
In november last yearthe Cuban government accepted the return by air of migrants who had not entered US territory unlike them.
The repatriation by air was adopted by the Barack Obama Administration in 2017 as a limited tool to stop the number of Cubans crossing the border, but it was suspended during the coronavirus pandemic until this Monday when about 150 Cubans were repatriated.
This Sunday, the US Coast Guard transferred 20 Cubans to the Bahamas on the ship skipjack, who had been rescued on Tuesday. The agency reported that since October last year the attempt of 6,449 rafters has been frustrated to get to Florida.
The Border Patrol has been holding 26 Cubans in custody since Friday, including six children, who managed to disembark in Cayo Marquesas. According to Chief Lieutenant Walter Slosar, they succeeded in a rustic raft.
At the beginning of 2023, the US government implemented a policy to welcome 30,000 migrants per month from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In parallel, it will immediately expel undocumented immigrants from those countries who try to cross the southern border into its territory irregularly to Mexico.
Mexico, for its part, agreed to admit 30,000 migrants a month who are expelled from US territory.
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