MIAMI, United States. – Official delegations from Cuba and the United States will meet next Thursday in Washington DC to discuss migration, sources familiar with the matter told the news agency Reuters. They will be the highest-level formal talks between the two governments since President Joe Biden arrived at the White House.
The meeting will also take place at the time of a wave of Cuban migration to the United States.
According to Reuters, the Cuban delegation will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío. Island officials are expected to meet with senior officials from the US State Department and possibly other agencies.
At the meeting, Washington will presumably advocate that the Havana regime accept more deportees.
“We have seen a significant increase in irregular Cuban immigrants to the United States, both by land and by sea,” a State Department spokesman told Reuters.
“Cubans currently occupy the second largest group arriving at the southwestern border of the United States,” he added.
Regarding the talks on migration issues between the two governments, the Washington spokesman assured that the White House was “regularly involved with Cuban officials on issues of importance to the United States government, such as human rights and migration.”
Last week transcended what Cuba had stopped accepting deportations of citizens of the island from the United States as of October 2021, according to information offered to the newspaper The New Herald by a spokesman for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
According to that source, the Cuban government “has not accepted any deportation from ICE through commercial or charter flights.” In the current fiscal year, which began in October 2021, Havana has only admitted 20 Cubans who have voluntarily repatriated to the island.
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