An undefined number of Cuban He was arrested by the Mexican authorities along with others migrants traveling irregularly Mexicoaccording to official information.
“Yesterday, on the Mexico-Puebla highway, @INAMI_mx identified 116 people on buses from Honduras, Ecuador, Mauritania, Guatemala, Brazil, Cameroon, Togo, Congo, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mali, China, Haiti and El Salvador. They have not confirmed their regular residency,” the Mexican National Institute for Migration (INM) reported on Twitter this Saturday.
The notice does not detail the measures applied to detained migrants, although the Mexican government continues to deport Cubans who have entered the country irregularly.
early February, According to the Cuban Interior Ministry, 37 Cubans were repatriated from Mexico (MININT) on its fourth flight deployment since early 2023. By that time, 232 had been returned to the island.
Mexico, a mandatory step for migrants trying to cross into the United States from Central America, detained more than 41,000 irregular Cuban migrants on its territory in 2022.
According to the annual statistics on people in an irregular migration situation in this country last year, Cubans ranked third in this register with 41,475 cases.
However, the number of Cubans who passed through this country is much higher, and that of returnees significantly lower. In December 2022 alone, 42,637 Cubans crossed the southern border of the United States, according to the Department of Customs and Border Protection (DHS/CBP).
That was also known this month More than 3,000 Cuban immigrants are awaiting transit permits through Mexico to reach the southern border of the United States in Tapachula, a town on the border with Guatemala, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Despite the radicals Changes in US immigration policy In January, with the closure of the border to Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians, the flow of immigrants into Mexico has not stopped.
Recently it also turned out that overall 872 Cubans applied for refuge in Mexico last January, acc reported the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR).
Cubans were the fourth nationality to file the most refugee applications, after Haiti (4,305), Honduras (2,837) and Venezuela (1,337).
The regions that received the most refugee applications last month were Tapachula, Chiapas and Mexico City.
A total of 12,863 refugee applications were filed in January, almost doubling the record for the same period last year.
Last year, from January 2022 to the end of November, a total of 17,487 Cuban migrants They applied for asylum in this country.