The number of migrants irregular migrants returned to Cuba so far this year amounts to 3,499, the majority from Mexico, USABahamas and Cayman Islands, reported the immigration authorities on the island.
The most recent of the 82 return operations, carried out by air and sea in that period, occurred this Friday when they were returned from Mexico 36 people, which adds up to 1,318 deportees from that nation, according to a report of the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
According to the media, it is operation 24 carried out from Mexican territory, now through a flight to the José Martí international airport in Havana, by virtue of the migratory flow control agreements between the two countries.
The Department of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP, for its acronym in English) reported, in turn, that only in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, 140,602 migrants from the island have arrived in that territory, according to figures handled by the Spanish agency Efe.
The figure exceeds the largest exodus of Cubans so far, in 1980, when 125,000 people left through the port of Mariel in just seven months, that medium specifies.
Cuba points to the Cuban Adjustment Act as a reason for citizens to try to reach the United States irregularly by land or sea, a regulation that allows access to permanent residence in the United States to Cubans who remain at least one year in its territory, adds the information.
It also accuses the United States of promoting migratory flows and of failing to comply with bilateral agreements on this matter. However, experts link the increase in the outflow of Cubans in the first place with the serious economic crisis that Cuba is going through, exacerbated by the commercial and financial embargo deployed by the White House, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, . and the ineffectiveness of the measures adopted by the government to get out of the difficult situation
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