Among the issues that Cuba aspires to discuss during the round of immigration talks with the United States This Wednesday in Washington is “the admission of people who arrive irregularly,” according to Johana Tablada, deputy director of the US General Directorate at the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
For Tablada, this is “an encouragement for others to adopt this unsafe path” and, specifically, he referred to the case of the Cuban pilot who stole a small plane last February to reach Miami, where he received political asylum.
The Cuban delegation will be headed by VM @CarlosFdeCossio Fernández de Cossío, will ratify commitment to #Cuba with migratory agreements and will deal with decisive issues that #USA does not recognize encourage emigration how suffocation measures damage standard of living population
— Johana Tablada de la Torre (@JohanaTablada) April 12, 2023
The event was described on Tuesday by the official as an “explicit breach of the migration agreements” signed between the two countries and a “danger to air safety.”
From the headquarters of Minrex, Tablada declared that the Cuban delegation, headed by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, has several issues on its agenda that “are concerns of the Cuban Government and that have not been resolved.”
Among these issues, he also referred to “incentives” that remain for irregular emigration, such as “the continuity of extreme, inhuman, fence measures, which directly influence the socioeconomic living conditions of the Cuban population” and which make many Cubans seek to emigrate to the United States.
The official affirmed that the Cuban government blames the US government “with these high migratory flows, and these extreme measures that have provoked a direct threat to the well-being and livelihood of our population.”
“Regular migration will not be achieved, and this issue will not be ordered as long as this policy of suffocation against Cuba exists,” he said in statements reproduced today by media such as the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
The deputy director of the US General Directorate acknowledged that “positive steps” were recorded last year, among which she highlighted the resumption of visa issuance at the US consulate in Havana and the granting of visas established in the migration agreements .
But, he advanced that Cuba will reiterate its request that the programs for the granting of non-immigrant visas be restored so that the citizens of the island can visit their relatives residing in the North American nation.
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The new migratory round takes place in the midst of an increase in Cuban arrivals to the US coasts, where so far in the 2023 fiscal year that began last October, the US Coast Guard. has intercepted more than 6,000 Cuban rafters.
The serious economic crisis in Cuba has intensified a massive migratory exodus, especially to the United States, where its authorities detained more than 313,000 Cubans on the southern border with Mexico, which represents about 3% of the total population of Cuba, according to the agency efe.
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