Mexico returned to Cuba this Friday 69 migrants who were trying to reach the United States illegally through Central American countries. According to official reports, the flow of Cubans across the border dropped significantly in January.
Four of these 69 “went out illegally by sea,” adds the report of the Cuban News Agency (Acn), where it is specified that the group was made up of 46 men, 18 women and five minors.
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The Ministry of the Interior (Minint), quoted by acneargued that the rest traveled “to countries in the area legally and later joined irregular routes to try to reach the US border.”
With this third operation from Mexico, there are 195 returned by this route this year, according to the Cuban authorities.
The number of Cubans returned to the country in 25 operations of this type from Mexico, the United States, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands amounts to 2,115 so far this year.
Cuba affirms that it maintains its commitment “with a regular, safe and orderly migration” and insists on “the danger and risk conditions for life that illegal departures from the country by sea represent.”
The US has seen record numbers of migrants on its southern border in recent times, trying to cross irregularly within a new unprecedented migratory exodus from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, mainly.
In Cuba, a total of 224,607 citizens arrived at the southern US border in fiscal year 2022 -between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022-, according to the Customs and Border Protection Office of said nation, cited by the Spanish agency.
Likewise, until last October 1, the date on which the current fiscal year began, 3,370 Cubans were detained in the Florida Straits.
At the beginning of this year, the US Government implemented a policy to welcome 30,000 migrants per month from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua. In parallel, it would immediately expel migrants from those countries who try to cross into its territory irregularly to Mexico.
More than 4,700 Cubans have been authorized to enter the US through a new parole program
A report from the Mexican Foreign Ministry, quoted by the newspaper The countryrevealed that the detentions of migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua on the border with the United States plummeted in January.
According to this source, the reduction was 97.5% for Cuban nationals.
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