The US immigration authorities reminded migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on Monday that the plan that allows them to be immediately deported to Mexico came into effect since Sunday if they lack prior approval of a request for humanitarian permission to enter. to the country.
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reiterated that immigrants from these four countries must request prior authorization to travel to the United States, and those who enter the country undocumented will be expelled to the neighboring country “quickly”.
Those who are deported to the neighboring country for crossing the southern border irregularly will not be able to access humanitarian permits, nor will those who arrive “illegally” in Panama and Mexico be able to request it, CBP reiterated in its messages via Twitter.
One of these permissions is the announced by President Joe Bidenon January 5, through which the United States will accept some 30,000 asylum seekers a month from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti, thus expanding a program through which it already granted humanitarian permits to Venezuelans.
With this plan, the White House intends to contain the arrival of immigrants to the southern border of the United States, but, at least in Cuba, what it has caused is a new stampede
With this plan, the White House intends to contain the arrival of immigrants to the southern border of the United States, but, at least in Cuba, what it has caused is a new stampedewith huge queues to get a passport and a fever unleashed to get a resident in the US to sponsor them.
To apply for humanitarian permission, immigrants from these four countries must have a sponsor in the northern country who guarantees that they will provide them with housing and food, among other necessities.
The arrivals of Cubans at the border between Mexico and the US last December reached the highest number recorded in recent history, 44,069 undocumented immigrants were detained by the Border Patrol, according to data released on Friday by the CBP.
With the last update, the historical record of 313,488 Cubans detained from January to December 2022, 14% of which registered only in December.
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