(EFE).- Cuba received this Friday a group of 27 rafters returned by the United States Coast Guard Service (SGC), and with them there are already 3,836 islanders deported from different countries in the region so far in 2023, reported the Ministry of the Interior.
In this operation carried out through the western port of Orozco, in the Artemisa province, 23 men, two women and two minors were repatriated.
Of these last returned emigrants, three were detained upon their arrival on the island for being considered “presumed perpetrators of serious criminal acts” who had been under investigation since before they became involved in illegal departures from the island, the report said.
It also adds that another of the deportees was on probation for compliance with criminal sanctions, at the time of leaving the country and “will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit.”
Of these last returned emigrants, three were detained upon their arrival on the island as they were considered “alleged perpetrators of serious criminal acts.”
The Cuban authorities stressed that they remain “firm” in their commitment to “regular, safe, and orderly migration,” and warned about “the danger and life-threatening conditions that illegal departures from the country by sea represent, as well as the irresponsible involvement juvenile”.
The US government has returned 2,875 Cubans since January of this year, through 44 operations by sea and two by air, the report specified.
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.
According to the Customs and Border Protection Office, in December 2022 more than 44,000 Cubans arrived at US border points, for a cumulative 313,488 who have arrived since January of that year.
So far in 2023, Cuba has also received repatriated migrants from the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico reported this Friday that 48 migrants from a group of 50 who were kidnapped a few days ago when they were traveling on a passenger bus in northern Mexico, received, after the odyssey, Visitor Cards for Humanitarian Reasons (TVRH).
On Tuesday the kidnapping of the 50 migrants and two drivers was announced and that the bus, which was traveling from Tapachula, Chiapas state, was intercepted by armed and hooded men who took them to a farm in a municipality in the neighboring state of Nuevo León, where they were held for almost two days.
The INM indicated that the group of 48 beneficiaries with the cards are 17 adults who traveled alone and 31 more who were part of family nuclei with minors.
The 49 migrants were 23 men, 15 women, six boys and five girls, explained Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Secretary of National Defense, and specified that seven were from Venezuela, 19 from Honduras, two from Brazil, one from Cuba, and 14 from Haiti. and six from El Salvador.
This Friday, in a statement, the INM reported the delivery of the documents to the migrants and noted that the group of 48 beneficiaries with the cards are 17 adults who traveled alone and 31 more who were part of families with minors.
In addition, it specified that adults and minors who were in the family nucleus were under the protection and guardianship of the authorities of the System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (DIF) of the state.
The Matehuala area, in San Luis Potosí, has aroused concern from the Government of Mexico due to the presence of kidnapping gangs that have attacked migrants transiting through the country towards the United States.
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