Mexico deports another 43 Cuban migrants to Havana

A group of 43 Cubans who were in an irregular situation in Mexico were returned to the island this Wednesday morning, according to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in a press release.

The Cubans returned were 25 men and 18 women.

There are already 5,103 irregular migrants on the island returned so far in 2023 from different countries in the region, as concluded by the MININT, which did not offer other details in its brief note about the most recent group of Cubans returned involuntarily to the island.

"Those people who are being deported are going to be your big stone in your shoes. Get ready because they come even more bitter and have nothing to lose because they lost everything, even the freedom to be outside of Cuba and see reality. Those are going to be the people who liberate the country," commented an Internet user on the MININT Twitter account.

Flights with Cubans repatriated from Mexico stopped on March 3, but at the beginning of October it emerged that the government of Mexico and four other countries in the region asked them to accept deportation flights for their nationals to alleviate the migration crisis caused by the flow. incessant number of people arriving daily at the Mexican border with the United States.

October 14 Mexico resumed deportations of migrants to Cuba, with a flight from the airline Viva Aerobús that transported 138 Cubans (95 men and 43 women) from Tapachula to Havana.

Since then, repatriation flights from the Aztec nation have maintained an almost weekly frequency.

Last On October 30, another 138 citizens were repatriated, 92 men and 46 women, on the third flight since deportations from the Aztec country resumed.

In that group, the young Dayneris Hernández Martínez was returned, who recounted through tears in a testimony released by journalist Mario J. Pentón how she was deported despite being approved for the appointment of the CBP One visa at the US southern border.

The young woman assured that she was taken from the motel where she was in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, along with a group of 24 Cubans. The Mexican police arrived at the hotel due to a fight in which the owner of the establishment was involved and upon discovering the Cubans, detained them and alerted immigration officials.

Hernández Martínez explained his case to an immigration officer, tried to show him the documents of his appointment, but only got evasive. The Cubans were transferred by bus to a detention center in Pachuca, from there to Tapachula and then to Cancún. The young woman reported that the immigration officials deceived them at all times and promised them that they would not be deported.

On November 4, another group of 105 Cubans (70 men and 35 women) who were in an irregular situation in Mexico were returned to the island, in what was the ninth deportation operation from Mexico to Cuba so far in 2023

Cuba is experiencing an unprecedented wave of migration. It is estimated that in 2022 approximately 4% of the Cuban population left the country in order to settle outside national borders.