More than seven thousand undocumented migrants have been returned from several countries to Cuba

Havana, Oct 21 (RHC) More than seven thousand undocumented migrants have been returned from several countries to Cuba so far this year by air and sea, Cuban Television News reported.

At the port of Orozco, in the western part of our country, U.S. Coast Guard ships have performed around 97 such operations, with people intercepted on the high seas when they were trying to reach that country illegally, As of last Sunday, with these maritime operations, the U.S. authorities returned more than 5,600 Cubans, in compliance with Washington's commitment to applying the same immigration procedures and regulations to them as to citizens of other countries as established by their laws and international norms.

In that sense, the television report pointed out, Cuba appreciates as a positive step the announcement by the U.S. State Department to reestablish in 2023 the granting of all types of visas in its embassy in Havana.

The closure for several years of consular activities at that diplomatic headquarters and the tightening of the U.S. blockade against the island amid the economic difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are factors denounced by the Cuban government as causes for the illegal emigration of its citizens.

So far this year, Bahamian authorities returned 438 people by air, while Mexican immigration authorities carried out 36 flights with more than 1,900 irregular Cuban migrants, and in the case of the Cayman Islands, the figure is four. (Source: Prensa Latina).