(EFE)
In this return, 60 men and 6 women arrived who were detained by the US authorities upon reaching its shores or crossing the border with Mexico, according to the Ministry of the Interior on its Twitter profile.
The first Cubans returned after the resumption of US deportation flights were 123 who arrived in Havana on April 24, 83 of them who had traveled irregular routes to the southern US border, after leaving the country legally by air. . Another 43 had illegally left the island by sea and were detained upon reaching the US coast, according to official media.
The Ministry of the Interior indicated then that these flights are “the result of bilateral cooperation between Cuba and the United States in immigration matters.”
This Wednesday, the US Government promulgated a new rule that restricts access to asylum on the border with Mexico and replaces Title 42, a rule of the Trump administration that allowed the hot returns of migrants in the health context of the coronavirus.
The norm qualifies migrants who cross the border irregularly and who have not requested protection in a third country during their journey to the United States as “unfit” to request asylum.
The norm qualifies migrants who cross the border irregularly and who have not requested protection in a third country during their journey to the United States as “unfit” to request asylum, government officials explained.
The day before, the US Coast Guard Service handed over 27 Cuban rafters to the island’s authorities. They added 3,580 irregular migrants returned so far this year from various countries, including more than 2,600 returned by the US.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, raised yesterday the possibility that other countries join the agreement with Spain and Canada to welcome Latin American migrants, although he did not detail negotiations in this regard with any specific country.
“We are very happy and grateful that Spain is participating (in the agreement),” said the leader of US diplomacy during a press conference with the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. Canada is also participating and possibly other countries could do so,” Blinken said when asked if other European nations would join the plan.
Blinken stressed that in the case of Spain “there is a particular logic” because it shares the language with Latin American migrants and needs to attract labor to its labor market, which makes it a “particularly attractive” country.
At the press conference, Albares did not give details of the numbers or deadlines to receive the migrants, nor did he clarify the immigration status they will receive. The Spanish minister said that the objective of the agreement is to demonstrate to migrants who undertake long and dangerous journeys to reach US or European territory that irregular migration “is not the only existing path.”
In addition, he stressed that countries like Spain need to “find labor in very specific sectors” and claimed that the opening of mechanisms to migrate regularly “is the best instrument to discourage irregular migration.”
“Spain will always be among the countries that join any initiatives that help our Latin American brothers, with whom we share so much and that contribute to economic development and prosperity,” he said.
Asked about the political situation in Venezuela and Cuba, Albares said that his government wants “for all Latin American countries exactly the same as for Spain: prosperity, democracy and freedom.”
Asked about the political situation in Venezuela and Cuba, Albares said that his government wants “for all Latin American countries exactly the same as for Spain: prosperity, democracy and freedom.”
Regarding the sanctions that Washington imposes on these countries, the minister said that he has no opinion on “the decisions of other countries.”
In Florida, the siege of irregular immigration is also narrowing. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1718 this Wednesday, which includes measures that make it difficult for immigrants in this situation to settle.
At a press conference held in the upstate city of Jacksonville, under the banner Protecting Florida from Biden’s border crisis, DeSantis said the law he signed is in response to what he described as a “massive problem on the border with Mexico.
The 43-page bill includes provisions to invalidate driver’s licenses and identification cards issued by other states to “unauthorized immigrants,” among many other provisions.
DeSantis lashed out at what he defined as “negligence” on the part of the Administration of US President Joe Biden, in immigration matters, a “failed responsibility from the first day of his government,” he said.
The governor, who at any moment could announce that he will participate in the Republican primaries from which the presidential candidate will emerge in the 2024 elections, stressed that Florida, from the beginning, has tried to “combat the effects of the policy” of Biden .
The rule that also establishes the obligation for hospitals to collect information on the immigration status of patients and submit it to state authorities
To counter those policies, he signed SB 1718, a rule that further establishes the obligation for hospitals to collect information on the immigration status of patients and submit it to state authorities.
The Governor noted that it is already illegal for employers to hire undocumented individuals and that the new requirements contained in the bill, particularly the E-Verify system, will help strengthen enforcement of these laws.
E-Verify is a system that allows registered companies to confirm if their potential employees can legally work in the United States.
The rule also establishes that transporting people to Florida without immigration permission is a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in addition to prohibiting funding city and county programs to provide identification cards to immigrants without regulated immigration status.
It also eliminates educational tuition waivers for undocumented students, repeals the law that allows lawyers who are still regulating their immigration status to practice law (including those who benefit from the federal DACA program) and endows with 12 million of dollars the transfer of immigrants to other states of the country.
This law and its provisions were strongly criticized yesterday by multiple community organizations that described them as “discriminatory and potentially unconstitutional”, whose “sole purpose is to instill fear in immigrant communities” in Florida.
“Florida is penalizing immigrants for having the misfortune to be born in countries that are in crisis and having the courage to seek peace and prosperity here,” Tessa Petit, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, said in a statement. .
“Florida is penalizing immigrants for having the misfortune to be born in countries that are in crisis and having the courage to seek peace and prosperity here.”
“Has the governor really thought about what all of this will really do to families that are just trying to get by?” Petit wondered about a law that some twenty organizations called the “most extreme anti-immigrant legislation in the country.”
Mariana Blanco, executive of the Maya-Guatemalan Center, said, for her part, that the greatest concern is “the fear that the undocumented population will be instilled when seeking and receiving services.” The governor “shouldn’t play games with people for his own political agenda. They are people. This is his workforce” and he should protect it, she added.
“As someone who came to the US as a political refugee from Venezuela and then went to Princeton and Oxford, I know how much immigrants have to give to Florida and to the nation, given the opportunity,” said Samuel Vilchez, Florida director of the American Business Immigration Coalition.
DeSantis insisted that the end of Title 42, which allows for the immediate removal of migrants, will produce a “tremendous disaster” on the southern border. “The Joe Biden government itself has indicated that the arrival of about 30,000 people a day is expected,” said the governor.
The executive director of the Hope Community Center in Apopka (Florida), Felipe Souza-Lazaballet, said after the signing of the rule that the “anti-immigrant, anti-human and anti-Latino agenda led by Governor Ron DeSantis represents a victory over the lives of thousands of Floridians that they will now have to suffer, and even pay with their lives, for the sake of their political career.”
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