The images of what happened to a large group of Cuban migrants in Mexico this Thursday hit social networks and show the drama they are going through to escape the Mexican police and cross the Rio Grande to surrender to the US authorities result.
Journalist Ricardo Arambarri from the Univisión broadcast a documented video across the border that allows us to see how dozens of Cubans entered the dangerous waters to avoid arrest by agents who pursued and surrounded them.
During the report, a couple can be seen arriving at the scene, the man was arrested, while the woman managed to escape the officers and get into the river. “Run, run,” yells the man who fell to the ground under an officer who stopped him.
The reporter also got into the water and tried to get some testimonies from the protagonists of the dramatic moment, but he couldn’t. “You don’t have time to talk to me,” assures the communicator, aware of the situation of Cubans and focused on taking the last step to reach the United States.
“There are at least fifty people. Everyone is crossing at this moment,” Arambarri reveals while showing the US authorities receiving the Cubans to process them.
“Here in Cuba there is a fire, people have not been able to endure so much misery and lies for more than 63 years; So they are launching into the unknown. The one who didn’t go is because they are still being deceived and indoctrinated by the communism we live in here, or because they don’t have enough money to make the trip, or because they are waiting for the opportunity, so to go as soon as possible. God first, then LAND AND LIFE”. “Thank you Ricardo Arambarri for your detailed information. It is very sad to see our Cuban brothers leaving Cuba in desperation,” some netizens reacted.
The mass exodus of Cubans seems unstoppable. It was recently announced that more than 32,000 Cubans were taken into US custody at the border with Mexico in March.
The Washington Post said that immigrants from the island who arrived at the southern border of the United States were twice as many as those who entered in February, according to figures thus obtained from the US Customs and Border Protection Agency ( CBP). .
With that in mind, the CBP could be on track to arrest more than 155,000 Cubans in the current fiscal year, records show, nearly four times the 2021 total and a 12-fold increase from 2020, authorities have noted.
The newspaper recalls that “about 125,000 Cubans arrived in 1980 during the Mariel Exodus, when the island’s ports and marinas were opened to allow US ships to accommodate anyone wishing to depart,” while “another 30,000 Cubans crossed the Strait of Florida during the 1994 chevron crisis.
“It’s not a victory for American politics and it’s not a victory for the Cuban people,” adding, “People are leaving Dodge instead of taking to the streets, which is clear evidence that the maximum pressure approach is not.” works,” suggested the historian of Cuba at the University of Miami, Michael Bustamante, of this new exodus.
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