(EFE)
“This is the 63rd return of the year, with a total of 3,280 returned by authorities in the region, based on current migration agreements,” the same statement said.
It is the second operation of deportees in the week since the Coast Guard of The United States returned 30 rafters to Cuba on Thursday.
Cuba has also received migrants from Mexico, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands in recent weeks.
The serious economic crisis on the Island is driving an unprecedented migratory exodus, especially to the United States.
Last year alone, US authorities intercepted more than 313,000 Cubans on the southern border with Mexico.
Last year alone, US authorities intercepted more than 313,000 Cubans on the southern border with Mexico, representing about 3% of Cuba’s total population.
The figure does not include the thousands of Cubans who left for other destinations such as Mexico, Spain or South America.
At the beginning of 2023, Washington implemented a program to welcome 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua every month, and stop the massive arrival of people from those countries.
Nearly 14,000 Cubans have benefited from this initiative, according to the State Department.
In parallel, Washington announced that it will immediately expel undocumented immigrants from those countries who try to cross the southern border into its territory irregularly to Mexico.
Mexico, for its part, agreed to admit 30,000 migrants a month who are expelled from US territory.
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