(EFE).- The United States Coast Guard Service (SGC) returned 10 Cuban rafters this Thursday and there are already 3,927 irregular migrants returned to the island from different countries in the region so far in 2023, according to the Ministry of Interior.
This new group includes 9 men and one woman, who had participated in four illegal departures from the country by sea and were later intercepted by the US Coast Guard.
One of the returned Cubans was on probation “for compliance with criminal sanctions at the time of illegally leaving the country and will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit,” the note said.
One of the returned Cubans was on probation “for compliance with criminal sanctions at the time of illegally leaving the country
It also refers that two other irregular migrants were returned to the Island last Sunday on a commercial flight by the Belizean authorities, for the first time this year from that nation.
Cuba and the US have a bilateral agreement so that all migrants who arrive by sea are returned to the island.
In addition, both countries agreed last November to resume deportation flights for “inadmissible” migrants held at the border with Mexico.
So far in 2023, Cuba has also received repatriated migrants from the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
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