In the last six months, the United States Coast Guard has frustrated the attempt to reach Florida by 6,202 Cuban rafters. According to official data, this figure exceeds that of the entire previous year, which was 6,182. District 7 Lt. John Beal reiterated that “anyone attempting to enter the United States illegally by sea will be rescued and repatriated.”
Beal stressed that “those rafters who disembark will be arrested and processed for their expulsion.” This is the procedure faced by the 14 Cubans who managed to make landfall on Friday. The migrants arrived in two rafts in the Florida Keys, and one group brought a dog with it.
Although the landing of Cubans in Florida has decreased since last January, the chief officer of the Border Patrol, Walter Slosar, documented with images the arrival of 89 nationals of the Island in the month of March. The largest group was registered after the arrival of 48 Cubans in two rafts at the Dry Tortugas National Park on March 4.
Lieutenant John Beal of the 7th District reiterated that “anyone attempting to enter the United States illegally by sea will be rescued and repatriated.”
This national park in the Florida Keys had to close in January due to the arrival in two days of at least 300 migrants. These landings occurred just as the Government of Washington implemented the program of parole humanitarian agency to receive 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua every month, in an attempt to stop the massive illegal arrival of people from those countries.
During the month of January, the US authorities granted the rafters who managed to disembark “an expedited deportation order”, the verdict that a judge issues for the expulsion of a person but that can be reversed with legal advice. Currently, they are processed and returned to their country of origin, noting that “they will not be eligible for the parole humanitarian”.
This Sunday, the Coast Guard delivered 64 rafters to Cuba and with them there are 2,998 irregular migrants returned to the island this year. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the group was made up of 54 men and 10 women.
The migrants, mostly from Matanzas and Mayabeque, were handed over to the Cuban authorities in the port of Orozco in the Artemisa province. Two of these people “were transferred to the investigative bodies, because before getting involved in the illegal exits they were investigated as possible perpetrators of serious criminal acts,” the Ministry of the Interior specified.
According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, as some 900 died trying to cross without documents.
On the other hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to receive, since the implementation of the humanitarian parole, 30,000 migrants per month who are expelled by the US and this has generated an increase in detentions and confinement of foreigners in centers of the National Institute of Migration ( INM), where abuses, extortions and human rights violations predominate.
In a provisional stay created by the Government, located on the border Ciudad Juárez, last Monday 38 migrants died due to a fire, out of the 700 who were held in the place. This Monday, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection reported that the death toll rose to 40.
“At the moment there are 40 deaths and 27 injuries, of which 23 remain hospitalized,” the INM said in a statement. Among the victims are six Hondurans, seven Salvadorans, 18 Guatemalans, one Colombian and seven Venezuelans. The identity of the last deceased person is still unknown.
According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, as some 900 died trying to cross without documents from the country to the United States.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow, with 2.76 million undocumented immigrants detained at the US-Mexico border since last October.
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