Until now, irregular migrants returned to the island in 2025, through 27 returns from different countries in the region.
Miami, United States. – A total of 118 Cuban migrants were deported from the United States to Havana this Thursday, July 31, in what constitutes the seventh repatriation flight executed by the administration of Donald Trump so far from 2025.
As reported by the Ministry of Interior (Minint) Through the official Cuban pressthree of the returned people were transferred to the investigation body “for being as alleged commissioners of criminal acts before leaving the country.” Repatriated include 96 men and 22 women.
The arrival was held by the “José Martí” International Airport, in Havana, “in correspondence with the bilateral migratory agreements,” said the Minint.
With this Thursday’s operation, irregular migrants returned to the island in 2025, through 27 returns from different countries in the region.
Last Monday, sources from the United States National Security Department (DHS) confirmed to Martí News that the seventh deportation flight to Cuba would take place on the last day of July.
Since January of this year, more than 600 Cuban citizens have been deported by the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE), within the framework of monthly flights that, according to statements obtained by Martí Newsthe Cuban regime would have been willing to duplicate, although the negotiations “did not come to realize.”
A DHS spokesman declared that these measures respond to Donald Trump’s policy to “restore border control and apply the law.” According to that source, “deportations have already exceeded 185,000 – and this is just the beginning.”
The official DHS source also highlighted the reactivation of the federal migration apparatus under the new government: “President Trump and Secretary Noem have reactivated an agency that was already vilified the one that prevented him from doing his job during the last four years.”
The Trump administration has reversed several predecessor policies in immigration matters, including the parole Humanitarian and the CBP One application, which allowed the legal income of more than 1.5 million people to the United States. Those who agreed on those ways were revoked work permits and urged to leave the country.
In addition, the policy of Catch and release (capture and release), which for years allowed the provisional entry of migrants while evaluating their asylum requests. According to the DHS, this change has had a significant impact: “Thousands are using the CBP Home App application to self -transport. There are even migrants who are going back before reaching our borders. Migration through the Darién cap has decreased by 99.99%.”
So far, the department has not specified how many Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans have made use of this tool to voluntarily return.
Deportations from US territory were suspended during much of the pandemic and resumed in 2023, after the renewal of bilateral agreements in immigration matters. During his campaign, Trump promised to carry out “the greatest deportation in history”, and his administration has insisted that he is fulfilling that commitment despite legal obstacles.
“Despite a historical number of judicial orders issued by activist judges, ICE, CBP and the US Coast Guard have made historical advances to fulfill the promise of President Trump to arrest and deport foreigners who have invaded our country,” said the DHS spokesman cited by Martí News.
