A total of 180 Cuban migrants deported from the United States arrived in the Mexican state of Sonora on Tuesday.
Mexican authorities built the Ana Gabriela Guevara sports complex, where they set up dozens of tents to house the newcomers.
An official at the National Institute of Migration (INM) told portal Informador that migrants entering US territory via Texas will be deported from Sonoyta, a Mexican city in northwestern Sonora.
Once at the immigration station, they are taken to the emergency shelter in Hermosillo, the state capital, where they are registered and receive comprehensive care, including food and clothing donated by civil society.
The shelter is run by the Ministers for Social Development, Health, Government, Civil Protection and staff specializing in the care of migrants.
One of the Cuban women deported by the US government, named Adisleidi Estrada, said after walking the streets of Hermosillo and seeing the supportive treatment she received from the residents, she felt it was a good place to live be.
Estrada, a 37-year-old teacher from Camaguey, left with her husband Cuba, where their two children still live. His intention is to return for her.
“My trip is to go to the United States. If I can’t for X reasons, I’ll stay in this country. I like Mexico,” he said.
After President Joe Biden announced new measures to stop the illegal arrival of migrants in the United States across the blue border, the authorities of that country, along with those of Mexico began expelling irregular Cuban migrants and transport them to the interior of Mexico.
“Don’t just show up at the border… Stay where you are and apply for it legally [refugio] from there,” Biden warned at a news conference last Thursday, where he announced he would immediately begin turning back Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans illegally crossing the southern border.
That’s what the White House’s strategy is aimed at Controlling the migration crisis and regulating entry into the country through a plan for humanitarian visas for asylum seekers and is based on an agreement with the Mexican government to turn back immigrants who enter illegally through border crossings.
the Program provides for the issuance of 30,000 monthly visas (probation). to applicants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. However, migrants deported for attempting to enter the southern border cannot reapply for entry into the United States for five years.