More than 17 thousand Cubans entered the United States through borders in June.

A total of 17,563 Cubans entered through the US borders during last June, according to data revealed this Monday by the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP).

That figure represents the lowest income in the first nine months of the US fiscal year (FY2024), which began on October 1st.

Just three months before the end of the period, 180,925 Cubans have entered the U.S. through different means during the current fiscal year.

The figures indicate that around 11,316 Cubans arrived through the southern border, while only 37 did so through the northern border, bordering with Canada, surpassing the number of entries through that zone from the previous month, which was 31. The remainder -6,216- arrived by sea.

The number of Cuban migrants who have entered the United States through its borders during the first nine months of the U.S. fiscal year (from October to September of each year) is higher than that recorded during the same period in 2023.

If in the first nine months of the 2023 fiscal year, the border encounters of Cubans totaled 164,440, in the current year the number reaches 180,925 migrants from the island assisted by U.S. immigration authorities.

This means, according to projections, that the current fiscal year will exceed the number of border encounters compared to the previous year, in which a total of 200,287 were recorded from October 2022 to September 2023.

The data shows that the crisis in Cuba continues to trigger a massive and irregular exodus from the island to the United States, despite the efforts of the Biden administration to channel this flow through legal avenues such as humanitarian parole.

Last April, on the eve of the 38th Round of Cuba-United States Migratory Talks being held in Washington, the regime in Havana acknowledged that the current migratory crisis is "the largest in the history of Cuba," but blamed the United States for it, citing its pressure policies and for incentivizing Cuban emigration with "extraordinary and artificial stimuli."

On June 5th, the Joe Biden administration implemented a series of changes at the border to prevent people from entering the country without authorization from seeking asylum, with a few exceptions.

The White House stated in an official statement that the "actions will be in effect when the high levels of encounters of illegal migrants on the Southern Border exceed the capacity to generate timely consequences."

The Biden administration then warned that Congress needed to act to resolve the immigration issue at the border with Mexico, because the actions approved by the president did not provide the personnel or funds necessary to ensure the situation.