The US Coast Guard returned 52 Cuban irregular migrants this Wednesday, reported the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba (MININT) in https://twitter.com/minint_cuba/status/1783190085833228546. Like most previous operations, this one also occurred through the Port of Orozco in Bahía Honda, Artemisa.
According to the Cuban News Agency, There are 45 men, six women and one minor, four years old, who had left the country illegally by sea and were subsequently intercepted.
The majority of those returned come from Matanzas, indicated the MININT. Four of those returned were on parole for compliance with criminal sanctions at the time of leaving the Island, and “they will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefits,” the Cuban ministerial authorities specified.
This is the 31st return operation so far this year. In this period, a total of 429 Cuban irregular migrants have been returned from different countries in the region.
Operations of this type have become increasingly frequent. On April 20the US Coast Guard returned 17 men and two women to Cuba who left the country on April 5, through Cárdenas, Matanzas. The returnees had left the country illegally in a sail and motor vessel, and due to bad weather they were sailing for approximately nine days until they were intercepted, as they stated.
Recently, Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said in an interview with the CBS television network that the regime is willing to accept more migrant deportation flights from the US. “We are open to having more” deportation flights, said the official in Washington, where he attended the meetings that took place between authorities from both countries, in a new round of immigration talks.
In these meetings, Fernández de Cossío reiterated Havana’s position: that the regime supports and calls for safe and orderly migration. It, despite the fact that in recent years it has favored migratory bridges using the visa exemption of its citizens by allied governmentsas it did with Nicaragua starting in November 2021, and before it did with Ecuador, during the governments of Rafael Correa.
With a country mired in shortages of basic products, rampant inflation and blackouts, The regime blames Washington’s sanctions for strangling its economy and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, which grants special entry rights to Cubans and support upon arrival, for encouraging its young people to emigrate.
According to the most recent statistical update from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), In March, 19,571 Cuban migrants arrived in the United Stateswhich represents an average of 631 per day.
With the March data, there are 538,670 Cubans who have arrived in the US since December 2021, when the largest migratory wave on the Island began, thanks to the suspension of the visa requirement for Cubans to travel to Nicaragua.
