Cuba: a total of 3,836 citizens are returned from various countries in 2023

Cuba received this Friday a group of 27 rafters returned by the United States Coast Guard Service (SGC), and with them there are already 3,836 islanders deported from different countries in the region so far in 2023, reported the Ministry of the Interior (Minint ).

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In this operation carried out through the western port of Orozco, in the Artemisa province, 23 men, two women and two minors were repatriated.

Of these last returned migrants, three were detained upon their arrival on the island for being considered “suspected perpetrators of serious criminal acts” who had been under investigation since before they became involved in illegal departures from the island, the report said.

It also adds that another of the deportees was on probation for compliance with criminal sanctions, at the time of leaving the country and “will be made available to the corresponding courts for the revocation of said benefit.”

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The Cuban authorities stressed that they remain “firm” in their commitment to “a regular migrationsafe and orderly”, and warned about “the danger and life-threatening conditions that illegal departures from the country by sea represent, as well as the irresponsible involvement of minors”.

The US Government has returned 2,875 Cubans since January of this year through 44 operations by sea and two by air, the report specified.

Last Monday, the US Coast Guard handed over 42 rafters to the island authorities and in previous days returned three groups of 27, 66 and 24 irregular migrants, two by sea and another arrived on the second flight after the recent resumption of the deportations by air between the two countries that had been suspended since December 2020.

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Cuba and USA They have a bilateral agreement so that all migrants who arrive by sea are returned to the island.

In addition, both countries agreed last November to resume deportation flights for “inadmissible” migrants held at the border with Mexico.

According to the Customs and Border Protection Office, in December 2022 more than 44,000 Cubans arrived at US border points for a cumulative 313,488 who have arrived since January of that year.

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So far in 2023, Cuba has also received repatriated migrants from the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.

Source: Elcomercio

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