MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel recognized this Wednesday the “high migration” that the country suffers, especially of young people, and called to avoid the “politicization” of the issue.
In its speech In the constituent session of the new National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP), in which he was unanimously re-designated “president”, the ruler addressed the issue of migration, one of the main problems affecting the Island.
“We cannot be part of the politicization of Cuban migration with which the enemy traffics,” Díaz-Canel said in his speech.
According to Raúl Castro’s successor, young people, “like all the Cuban people, suffer economic needs and their terrible consequences, but they go about their day to day willing to make Cuba a better country.”
The president assured that the island’s regime counts on the emigrants, who “living anywhere in the world preserve their love for their country”, not so with those who “have sold their souls to the devil.”
In the last two years, Cuba has suffered the largest migratory crisis recorded on the island. official figures of the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (US Customs and Border Protection, for its acronym in English) indicate that between October 2021 and September 2022, 220,908 Cuban migrants crossed the southern border of the northern country. Since October of last year, another 114,710 have arrived in the US by the same route, for a total of 335,618 island nationals.
The number of Cuban migrants decreased significantly as of January 2023, after the Biden administration limited their entry with the humanitarian parole program.
The migration crisis has also taken place in the Straits of Florida, through which more than 12,000 Cuban rafters have tried to reach the US irregularly since October 2021.
