Cuban migrants arrive in Florida using windsurf boards

Havana Cuba. — The migratory wave from Cuba does not stop. The United States Border Patrol (CBP) detained two individuals from the largest of the Antilles who reached the Florida Keys on windsurf boards. Both would be being processed for their imminent deportation.

Despite the warnings from the authorities and the risk of being returned to their country, Cubans continue to try to reach lands of freedom, fleeing the repression and misery that continue to increase on the island as a result of the political and economic failure of the system. imposed by the late dictator Fidel Castro.

The immigration authorities of the United States insist on the need for an orderly and safe migration instead of resorting to illegal crossings or paying the “coyotes” who smuggle people across the border.

Cuba is experiencing its worst migration crisis since January 1959. It is estimated that the number of Cubans who arrived in the American Union through the southern border in the recently concluded fiscal year is around 200,000, surpassing, as a whole, the numbers of the Mariel exodus (1980) and the so-called Balseros Crisis (1994).

On dry land the flow is constant. Coming from Nicaragua, where they can travel without needing a visa, thousands of Cubans wait in Mexico to process their asylum request; while thousands of others inside the Island await the full resumption of consular services in Havana, in 2023, to resume the Family Reunification process.

Until last October 8, the US Coast Guard (USCG) had detained 226 Cuban migrantswhich is not enough to dissuade those who, within the Island, sell their few belongings to try to reach the nation that has historically welcomed them to offer them the freedom and opportunities that they never knew in their homeland.

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