Desolate is a Cuban who has twice been returned to Mexican territory by US authorities in recent days after successfully crossing Bravo River.
“Without any explanation, they said that this was an order they sent to turn all Cubans back. They brought me back and I’m back here in Mexico.”said a young man bitterly in statements to journalist Javier Díaz for , in which he also said a US immigration officer told them that no one had sent them to this country.
“They treated us very badly from the beginning, they took us to the immigration center. There they took our fingerprints… Imagine how I feel, they took everything from us. I go in flip-flops, in shorts … I suffered a lot, I have scratches “added the visibly shocked migrant, who indicated that the returnees were Cubans and Nicaraguans along with him.
A Washington Post report revealed that recent returns They would be the result of talks between the Mexican government and the United States, which are willing to stem the growing flow of migrants at any cost.
According to the above media, the Mexican authorities have agreed with the Americans to take in more Cuban and Nicaraguan immigrants who have been expelled by the United States under the public health order known as Title 42 in the coming days.
So far, of the 78,903 Cubans arrested by US border patrol between October 1, 2021 and March 31, only 737 have been deported. In contrast, about 65 percent of Hondurans and Guatemalans were expelled during this period.
However, that could change in the coming days the Mexican government will have more freedom to conduct deportation flights to Cuba and Nicaragua, Countries that maintain cold diplomatic ties with the US, limiting Washington’s ability to deport these citizens.
The United States this week 120 Cuban and Nicaraguan migrants deported to Ciudad Juárez in just 24 hours, according to the Mexican press.
But an official said the Mexican government has asked the United States to prevent the return of Cubans and Nicaraguans to certain areas, such as the busy Del Río Border Patrol sector, where both countries lack the logistical capacity to accommodate so many migrants.
This Tuesday, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Luis Ebrard showed that Your country does not have free transit to the Migrants who want to reach the United States.
“When you arrive in Mexico, you must register under the law. You can ask for refuge, you can apply for asylum, you can be a temporary worker. Which we won’t allow, with or without Title 42 or whatever the US decides is that Mexico becomes a country where everyone passes by,” he stressed after a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.
This was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Title 42 expires on May 23rd. But in April a Federal judge temporarily prevented for the Biden administration to abolish Title 42, and Republican-led states are defying the CDC’s timeline to end it. The next hearing to evaluate the case is scheduled for May 13.
The number of Cubans arrested by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) marked one new record of almost 35,000 in April. The amount is greater than February 16,550 and that more than March 32 thousandalthough the official statistics have not yet been released.
The number of immigrants detained at the border rose to about 234,000 from 221,000 in March.