This content was published on January 23, 2023 – 6:38 p.m. January 23, 2023 – 6:38 p.m
Los Angeles, 23 January (EFE).- The US immigration authorities reminded migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on Monday of the plan that will allow them to be immediately deported to Mexico if they do not have prior authorization for a humanitarian Application have permission to enter the country.
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reiterated that immigrants from these four countries must apply for prior authorization to travel to the United States, and those entering the country undocumented “fast” to the neighboring country to be expelled.
On Jan. 5, President Joe Biden announced a plan to halt the large influx of immigrants across the country’s southern border.
Under the plan, the United States will take in about 30,000 asylum seekers from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti each month, expanding a program it has already given humanitarian permits to Venezuelans.
Those who are deported to the neighboring country for irregularly crossing the southern border will not have access to humanitarian permits, nor will those arriving “illegally” in Panama and Mexico be able to apply for them, CBP reiterated in its news about Twitter.
In order to apply for humanitarian permits, immigrants from these four countries must have a sponsor in the United States guaranteeing that they will provide them with housing and food, among other things.
With this plan, the White House wants to curb the arrival of immigrants at the southern border of the United States, which continues to see large numbers. In December 2022, the CBP reported that it had intercepted 216,162 people on the country’s southwestern border, an 11% increase in the number of encounters from November.
In a statement, CBP warned that the surge was “driven in large part by an increased number of people fleeing authoritarian regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua.”
However, he pointed out that Venezuelans, who were previously part of this surge, continue to arrive in “much smaller numbers as a result of the immigration control process, which includes deportations to Mexico and legal channels,” in use since last October.
“Venezuelans have steadily declined from about 1,100 a day (the week before this trial was announced) to about 100 a day in December. EFE
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