El secretario Alejandro Mayorkas (derecha), junto al secretario de Estado, Anthony Blinken y la canciller panameña, Erika Mouynes, en una rueda de prensa este miércoles en Ciudad Panamá.

Washington seeks to resume migration agreements with Havana

Migration talks between the United States and Cuba begin on Thursday in Washington, meetings that were to be held twice a year, but were interrupted in 2018. The last meeting was on February 11 of that year..

Neither of the two parties has revealed their agendas, but it is presumed that one of the issues to be addressed is that of the complications created by the massive presence of Cubans on the southern border of the United States.

Today Wednesday in Panama, where he traveled to attend a regional meeting on the migratory crisis in Central America, the Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, made known the US concerns. “I don’t want to get ahead of the dialogue between the United States and Cuba, but as everyone knows, we have had migration agreements with Cuba for many, many years. They were discontinued, and we will explore the possibility of resuming them,” said Mayorkas. at a press conference.

The US could breach migration agreements with Cuba

He also said that the meeting is part of the “commitment of the United States to allow safe, humanitarian and orderly migration.” The goal, he specified, is to ensure that Cubans “do not launch themselves, for example, into the seas, an extraordinarily dangerous journey.”

According to US data, from October 2021 to March 2022, more than 78,000 Cubans entered the country through the border with Mexico, a figure that doubles the number that left the island during the so-called rafters crisis, in 1994, when Cubans picked up on the high seas they were taken to the Guantánamo Naval Base to be transferred to the United States after several years.

The first United States-Cuba migration agreements were signed in 1984 and the second a decade later.

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