MIAMI, United States. — The United States government continues to tighten its policies against regular immigration, specifically against those who try to arrive in the northern country by sea.
This Sunday, the US Embassy in Cuba Indian that all people who jump into the sea will be ineligible indefinitely for the program humanitarian parole launched by the Biden administration last January.
The measure – the diplomatic headquarters indicated – is applied retroactively to all those who have tried to reach the United States illegally by sea from April 27 onwards.
“Attention! Migrants who are intercepted at sea after April 27, 2023 will be indefinitely disqualified from the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans and Haitians, announced in January.”
Attention!
Migrants who are intercepted at sea after April 27, 2023 will be indefinitely disqualified from the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans and Haitians, announced in January. pic.twitter.com/HDMGJhpYDo— Embassy of the United States in Cuba (@USEmbCuba) May 14, 2023
The regulations further toughen the punishment against those who try to arrive in the US irregularly, which prior to the new announcement was five years of ineligibility.
Last Friday, the US Coast Guard repatriated 74 Cuban migrants who were involved in three illegal departures from the country. That same day, another 23 Cubans deported from the Bahamas arrived at the Havana airport.
A note of the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba (MININT) published by the state press indicates that “three of the returnees were transferred to the investigative bodies for being alleged perpetrators of serious criminal acts that were being previously investigated.”
The agency’s information added that “three other citizens were on probation at the time of illegally leaving the country and will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit.”
