SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The United States Coast Guard repatriated a total of 25 migrants to Cuba this Wednesday, according to the official press.
The group, made up of 16 men, eight women and one minor, had tried to reach US shores after an illegal departure from Playa Baracoa, province of Artemisa.
However, the Cubans were intercepted at sea by the US Coast Guard, and transferred to Cuba.
According to the information provided by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), two of the rafters “were on conditional release for compliance with criminal sanctions at the time of leaving the Island and will be made available to the corresponding courts for revocation.” of said benefit.”
With this, there are seven return operations carried out by the US Coast Guard by sea. Since the beginning of 2024, there have already been 131 migrants returned.
The unstoppable exodus
Just two days after the start of the year, the first return of irregular migrants to Cuba in 2024 took place. On that occasion, the US Coast Guard returned 56 people, most of them from Matanzas, who had participated in three illegal departures from the country and intercepted at sea.
In January of this year, the US Customs and Border Protection Office announced that in 2023, more than 153,000 irregular entries of Cubans into their country had been registered.
Another 67,000 flew directly to US territory thanks to the parole humanitarian program implemented a year ago by the Biden administration. In total, 220,000 Cubans emigrated to the northern country in 2023 and 313,000 in 2022.
The exodus from the Island in just two years already totals more than half a million migrants (at least 533,000) and is the largest recorded since 1959.
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2024-02-23 02:04:34
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