Cuban immigrants arrested while traveling by bus through Mexico

Unspecified number of Cubans He was arrested by the Mexican authorities, along with others immigrants Irregular when traveling Mexicoaccording to official information.

Yesterday, on the highway between Mexico and Puebla, @employee It identified 116 people on buses from Honduras, Ecuador, Mauritania, Guatemala, Brazil, Cameroon, Togo, Congo, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mali, China, Haiti and El Salvador. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) reported this Saturday on Twitter.

The letter does not include details of procedures applied to detained migrants, although the Mexican government continues to deport Cubans who entered the country illegally.

in early february, 37 Cubans have been repatriated from Mexico according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in the fourth air operation carried out since the beginning of 2023. Up to that point, 232 have been returned to the island.

Mexico, which is a mandatory step for migrants trying to reach the United States from Central America, has detained more than 41,000 irregular Cuban immigrants in its territory during 2022.

According to annual statistics on persons in irregular immigration status in that country over the past year, Cubans ranked third in that registry, with 41,475 cases.

but, The number of Cubans who crossed that country is much higher, and the percentage of returnees is significantly lower. In December 2022 alone, 42,637 Cubans entered the southern border of the United States, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (DHS/CBP).

In this month it was also known that More than 3,000 Cuban migrants are waiting to receive a transit permit through Mexico To get to the southern border of the United States in Tapachula, a city on the border with Guatemala, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Although radicals Changes brought about by US immigration policy In January, with borders closed to Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians, the flow of migrants in Mexico has not stopped.

It also appeared recently that a total of 872 Cubans have requested asylum in Mexico Last January, according to mentioned Mexican Commissioner for Refugee Aid (COMAR).

Cubans were the fourth nationality that submitted the largest number of asylum applications after Haiti (4,305), Honduras (2,837) and Venezuela (1,337).

The regions where the most asylum applications were submitted last month were Tapachula, Chiapas and Mexico City.

In total, 12,863 asylum applications were submitted in January, a number that doubles the record for the same period the previous year.

Last year, from January 2022 to the end of November, A total of 17,487 Cuban immigrants have applied for asylum in that country.