U. S. Coast Guard Deports 12 Cuban Irregular Migrants on Boat
US Coast Guard Plane, July 2024 Photo: @USCG
July 17, 2024 Hour: 5:02 pm
This group had left Cuba in a speedboat with foreign support, and after sailing approximately nine hours were intercepted by the American Coast Guard,
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) returned 12 irregular migrants to Cuba, and with them, 769 returnees from several countries in the region so far in 2024, official media reported Wednesday.
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This group had Cuba in a speedboat with foreign support, and after sailing approximately nine hours were intercepted by the American Coast Guard, according to a statement released by the Ministry of the Interior (Minint).
Havana and Washington have a bilateral agreement for all migrants arriving by sea in the United States to be returned to Cuba.
According to a recent report by the United States Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in June 17,563 Cubans arrived in the United States, the lowest amount for a calendar month of the current 2024 fiscal year that began last October.
According to their data, 180,925 Cubans have entered the U.S. in the last nine months and estimates that at the end of the fiscal year (September 2024) about 245,000 Cubans would enter.
From the beginning of the year, Cubans were also returned on commercial flights from the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.
Autor: CC
Fuente: EFE
