Havana/One by one, Donald Trump’s government is cutting the ways of contact with the Cuban regime. The pause of the migratory conversations that Washington and Havana head each year, is the most recent measure of the Republican, whose administration has significantly limited the entrance to the country of Cubans – among other migrants – and has returned the island to the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism.
A senior official of the US State Department confirmed to Caféfuerte The measure, which has not been announced by any of the governments. “The Trump administration is promoting a foreign policy by putting the United States ahead. The United States will no longer commit to the Cuban regime for the mere fact of establishing a commitment and maintaining an endless dialogue,” the source explained.
The first of the conversations between Washington and Havana this 2025 – they are carried out in a biannual way – was scheduled for this April, but according to the medium a date for the meeting has not been agreed. The United States will decide whether it is necessary to meet with Cuba and how, the official added.
The latest immigration meetings were held in December 2024 in Havana
The latest immigration meetings were held in December 2024 in Havana and, according to the White House, “the United States raised before the Cuban government issues of interest, such as the facilitation of family reunification, discouraging irregular migration and improving respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba.” All these points are part of the migratory agreements between the two countries that were signed in 1984.
Despite carrying more than four decades “committed” to Washington, Havana has failed to comply with the agreements over and over again. Human rights and crisis violations, which encourages migration, are two obvious examples.
Trump had already suspended the meetings in 2018, when he withdrew his diplomatic representation from the island. In 2022, during the mandate of Joe Biden, the officials returned to the headquarters and the conversations resumed.
For Trump, who since his arrival at the Oval Office last January has not given Havana, the measure could mean another step in its severity policy against the Cuban regime. Previously, the Republican had returned to Cuba to the list of countries that support the terrorism of which he had come out just a few days before by Joe Biden’s decision.
The National Security Department (DHS) also deployed a Series of measures for all ships passing through Cuban ports and whose destination is the United States. These include the increase in safety in Cuban waters and the obligation to undergo a rigorous inspection once they enter the US port. As DHS explained to 14ymedio“Cuban ports do not maintain effective anti -terrorist controls.”
National Security included Cuba in the draft of a list of countries whose citizens will have limited entrance to the United States
As for migratory measures, National Security included Cuba in the draft of a list of countries whose citizens will have limited entry to the United States. The island is in the section of Red nationswhich have “strictly prohibited entry to the United States.”
Recently DHS said the beneficiaries of the parole Humanitarian, implemented by the Biden administration, must return to their countries as of April 24, since this program “does not provide a significant public benefit and has not been necessary to reduce illegal immigration levels.” American justice failed againstbut Trump interpreted him as an error by the courts.
“What is happening with our courts? They are totally out of control. They seem to hate so much to ‘Trump’ that everything is worth! We are trying to rescue our country from the destruction caused by the Democrats and the corrupt Joe Biden,” he said on his network, Truth Social.
White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, also criticized the decision of Judge Indira Talwani about the program that protects more than half a million Haitians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Cubans: “I spoke with the office of the White House lawyer about this this morning because, obviously, another judge of the District District is trying to block the efforts of mass deportation of the government with this last order judicial ”. “We will continue concentrating in deporting as many people as we can,” he added.
