Cubans once again made longcolas intravel agency to buy tickets toNicaragua, after announcement thatThe United States will once again accept asylum applications from Mexico.
Numerous residents on the island crowded into the headquarters of the agency that sells tickets for the airline CONVIANSA bound for Nicaragua, according to a video shared this Tuesday on the profile ofFacebook from the independent mediaCubanet.
“Among the misery and hunger that exists in this country, Cubans are queuing outside CONVIANSA in the Miramar business center to get their ticket to Nicaragua, so desperate are they that they are crazy to leave the country and get out of this island, where there is nothing,” points out in the video a Cuban who filmed the images of the long line in front of the travel agency.
The images showed dozens of Cubans lining up at the headquarters of the aforementioned agency and several arguing over the order of the line.
In the comments of the publication, a user commented that “there is no other choice, for young people or for those who can go out, we are going through very difficult times in our country.”
“The old people and those who don't have money are left,” says another Internet user.
However, this TuesdayThe United States government warned Cubans that undertaking a land journey through Central America to cross the border "is dangerous and useless".
"BEWARE! Undertaking the overland journey through Central America in hopes of reaching the US is dangerous and futile. Most people who arrive at the US southern border do not qualify for political asylum," expressed the Washington Embassy in Havana through a publication on Twitter.
"Trying to enter the country irregularly will result in a ban on entering the United States for five years. Do not believe the lies of human traffickers. Take care of your life and that of your family," he emphasizes.
The clarification comes after the announcement made on July 28 by the Joe Biden administration that it will allow immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are in Mexico to apply for entry to the United States as refugees, which has fueled hopes of emigrating from the island.
This initiative is part of a bilateral agreement for the creation of a "multipurpose international space", which the governments of Mexico and the United States negotiated in order to favor the resettlement of immigrants stranded on Mexican soil after January 5.
Despite the policies implemented by the Biden Administration, andhe migratory flow from Cuba to the US does not stop. Although the number of arrivals at land borders has decreased, the flow by sea has increased.
In mid-July it was learned that thearrival of Cuban immigrants through border points It remains unstoppable and added another 10,885 arrivals last June, mostly by sea.
According to himDepartment of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), of the more than 10 thousand Cubans who arrived irregularly to the United States in June, 6,630 did so through the so-called Miami sector, a16% increasein relation tothose who entered through the same area the previous month (5,532).
Another 2,681 entered through the Mexican border to request refuge in United States territory,
Although the US authorities observed in theirmonthly report that in general “a significant and continuous decrease in migrant arrests along the southwest border” was experienced, with the lowest records in more than two years, Cubans are left out of the equation.
During the last four months, the entries of Cubans through the Mexico border and the coasts of southern Florida have marked a sustained increase, especially due to the number of maritime operations or people reporting to the Miami offices.
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