More than 9,000 Cubans have sought asylum in Mexico so far this year, keeping Cuba in second place among countries of origin for emigrants, surpassed only by Honduras.
From January to July of this year, 9,914 Cubans in irregular situations requested protection from Mexican authorities during their journey to the United States, according to the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR).
The institution did not provide data on the number of resolved cases or those that received a positive response. In its report for June, the entity stated that out of the 8,833 Cubans in irregular situations who requested protection from the Mexican authorities, 2,339 cases had been resolved, of which 1,314 obtained refugee status.
Since 2019 -when the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began- until July of this year, 69,269 Cubans arrived in Mexican territory and applied for refugee status.
Compared to previous years, the month of July has registered a decrease in the number of asylum seekers. While in 2022 the number was 8,593 applications, and in 2023 it rose to 12,174, in July of this year Mexican authorities count only 5,204 people in that condition.
Honduras, with 19,803 asylum seekers, surpasses Cuba by more than double. It is followed by Haiti (4,022), El Salvador (3,842), Guatemala (2,671), and Venezuela (2,549).
The figures are eloquent of the migratory crisis that the Island continues to suffer, despite the decrease in the number of migrants opting to make the Central American "journey" following the approval in January 2023 of the humanitarian parole implemented by the Biden administration.
During June, according to data released this Monday by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office, a total of 17,563 Cubans entered through the borders of the United States. The figure represents the lowest intake in the first nine months of the U.S. fiscal year, which began on October 1 of last year.
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