MIAMI, United States. – The attorney general of the Bahamas, Ryan Pinder, assured before the Senate of his country that the numbers of migrants arriving on the shores of their country, particularly Cubans, are “through the roof,” according to the newspaper’s report TheTribune.
Pinder referred to the wave of Cuban migrants after Senator Maxine Seymour inquired about the allocation of $800,000 for rent/housing for the Department of Immigration.
Seymour said, “I noticed we’ve allocated $800,000. Last year $270,000 would have been spent and then before that $610,000.”
For his part, Pinder explained: “As we see an increase in the entry of illegal immigrants, we would like to put Immigration officers in each place. (…) Miami Herald A couple of days ago he said that the Cuban immigrants who arrived in South Florida this last year exceed those of the Mariel crisis.”
Pinder specified that, before this moment, the majority of the illegal immigrants who landed on the coasts of the Bahamas were Haitians. However, the number of Cubans has skyrocketed this year.
“We are seeing a significant number of Cuban immigrants coming in and we believe we need to redeploy Immigration officers throughout the archipelago to better combat this,” he said.
“Our number of illegal immigrants, seizures and repatriations is through the roof; frankly much higher than we’ve seen before, so this is an effort to try to mitigate illegal migration.”
Bahamas it is not the only Caribbean territory that has had to take emergency measures due to the wave of Cuban migrants.
At the end of April this year, The Customs and Border Control Service (CBC) of the Cayman Islands activated a contingency plan given the massive arrival of migrants – including many Cubans – on the coast of Cayman Brac, according to the media Cayman Marl Road.
Currently, Cuba is experiencing a migratory exodus that has already surpassed the Mariel crisis. Weekly, dozens of Cuban rafters they take to the sea in an attempt to reach the shores of Florida. Most of them are intercepted by US authorities and returned to the Island.
However, others end up in territories far from the United States, not counting those who disappear and even die on the high seas.
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