The United States deports 56 Cubans by air.

A total of 56 Cuban migrants were deported by the United States government via air.

The group, composed of 12 women and 44 men, arrived at the "José Martí" International Airport in Havana this Thursday.

According to what was revealed on Facebook by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), six of the returnees had left the country illegally by sea. The rest left legally by air, but later started an irregular journey to reach the US border.

One of the migrants was transferred to the investigative body because he was registered as a suspected perpetrator of a crime.

With this, there are a total of 48 repatriation operations, involving 744 people from various countries in the region, both by air and sea.

The last deportation flight from the United States was on May 23, when 45 Cubans were returned, 11 of them were rafters.

Returned migrants by air are usually those with a deportation order after being detained at the border and released with an I220B form, or rafters who reached land. Those detained at sea are returned by the Coast Guard.

Cuba receives a deportation flight from the United States every month, and in April reported that it could receive up to two flights per month.

Deportations began in April of last year, amid an unprecedented exodus of Cubans in history. The first flight organized by ICE was the most numerous, with 123 returning migrants on April 24th.