Mexico asks the Cuban government to accept flights with deportees in the face of a strong migration wave

Text: Copa Noticias 360 editorial

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Given the strong wave of migration, Mexico’s National Migration Institute has asked the governments of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil and Colombia to receive flights with deportees.

After a meeting with representatives of the North American Border and Ferromex, in Ciudad Juarez, it was agreed that migrants who returned from the United States via the Ciudad Juarez International Bridge will be handed over by the American authorities to INM and this entity intends to return them to their countries of origin on deportation flights.

Figures from the National Institute of Migration indicate that: “From January 1 to September 2023, federal immigration agents rescued 1,469,787 migrants,” of whom “788,089 were returned by land and air” to their homes. .

To give you an idea, so far, in September, 189,000 migrants have been detained in Mexico, which represents a daily average of 9,000 people.

In fact, immigration authorities in Tapachula confirm that about 20,000 Cubans are waiting to complete a CBP One application seeking political asylum in the United States.

The general picture appears increasingly complex in the region, after the Mexican government promised to establish 15 checkpoints to prevent migrants from boarding freight trains to the border with the United States, but it did not specify the exact locations where they would be located.

Ferrumex, which operates Mexico’s largest railway network, temporarily canceled about 60 freight trains due to the presence of thousands of migrants traveling on them to reach the southern border.

This caused their business operations to be affected, so they quickly took drastic measures.

In this sense, 4 thousand people were reported on board the locomotives or in their operating areas. In addition, fatal accidents have been recorded in recent days, with several injuries occurring among migrants traveling on these trains.