The Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP) denied a young Cuban woman with the new parole approved, your entry into the United States. “You are not admissible,” the CBP officer who interviewed her told her, lawyer Jesús Novo told journalist Mario J. Pentón in a live broadcast on their social networks. “I understand that he is on his way to Cuba.”
The lawyer explained that the young woman entered the US illegally on the 8th and the US Government had warned that as of the 9th, people who crossed without documents would not be eligible for the new program that grants 30,000 temporary permits for CubansNicaraguans and Haitians.
“This is something we didn’t expect,” Novo stressed. The US authorities were the ones who recommended that the migrant return to Mexico to seek her sponsorship through her relatives, and that is what she did. “Unfortunately she arrived at the Miami airport and they didn’t let her in.”
Roberto Barrona is in a migrant shelter in the Ana Guevara gym in Hermosillo. He was returned from the US a few days ago and is confident that, after requesting an appointment at a border point through the CBP One app, he can enter legally. “If there is no permission, I stay in Mexico because I will not return to Cuba.”
Barrona made the journey from Managua and left a daughter on the island. “People here (in the shelter) ask me why I left and I answer because on the Island I spent nights and days inventing something to buy (my daughter) a packet of cookies” to eat.
“A salary is not enough, an egg carton is worth 2,000 pesos, to go to work you have to take bottle, the doctor does not have with which to attend to the patients. A teacher who is the one who teaches the children, does not have breakfast, goes to school, thinking that if he does not have oil, that if he does not have chicken “.
“The Government of Mexico has me in jail. I’m ‘stuck’ and they tell me I can’t get on the bus, so why did they give me the safe-conduct?”
This 24-year-old Cuban asked for advice so that, if he is not accepted in the US, he can regularize his immigration stay in Mexico and have the possibility of getting a job.
More than 3,000 kilometers from Hermosillo (Sonora), in Tapachula (Chiapas), in southern Mexico, is Alberto Rodríguez. This habanero affirmed 14ymedio that he has a safe-conduct that allows him to transit for seven days within Mexican territory, granted at the Migration offices last Wednesday. However, the immigration authorities themselves prevented him from boarding a bus to leave the state.
“The Government of Mexico has me imprisoned. I’m ‘stuck’ and they tell me I can’t get on the bus, so why did they give me the safe-conduct? Just like me, there are people from Cuba, from Haiti, from Venezuela. No It’s understandable why they have us here if people don’t want us.”
Rodríguez commented that he knows of some migrants who have requested deportation and have been denied “because there are no means,” they are told.
The lawyer José Luis Pérez revealed to this newspaper that Migration is causing a bottleneck in Tapachula. “It seems that among Mexico’s agreements with the US is turning the southern border into a checkpoint to prevent problems from reaching the northern border.”
Pérez stressed that in the Siglo XXI immigration stay there is a collusion network between agents and some managers to process transit permits. “They charge up to 300 dollars and in exchange they give them a sheet to get to Oaxaca and from there, they return them to Tapachula.”
Precisely in Tapachula, a group of 30 Cubans with a travel permit from the United States after being approved for the new parole humanitarian, denounced that the immigration authorities of Mexico prevent them from boarding a plane to travel to that country. They argue that they must process a safe-conduct to be able to travel, otherwise “they will not be able to do it.”
The island’s compatriots requested advice because the permit granted to them by the United States is valid for 90 days.
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