MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Immigration talks between the Biden administration and the Cuban authorities started Thursday in Washington.
While the talks appear to make sense in mild of the massive variety of migrants, native exiles say Cuba has a poor historical past of abiding by immigration agreements.
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Among the migrants crossing the U.S. southern border, are giant numbers of Cubans. An estimated 40,000 live within the U.S. with ultimate deportation orders from an immigration decide, however they can’t be despatched again to Cuba as a result of the Cuban authorities has stopped accepting them.
Now, the Biden administration has begun talks with Cuban authorities officers in Washington to debate the issue.
Local Cuban exiles are usually not having it.
“A high-level commission from the United States is meeting with a high-level commission from Communist Cuba,” stated Silvia Iriondo, of the Assembly of Cuban Resistance. “The Cuban government is the same government that supports Russia in their invasion of Ukraine.”
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Since final October, the Coast Guard has intercepted greater than 1,400 Cubans at sea, in comparison with 838 in fiscal yr 2021, 49 in fiscal yr 2020 and 313 in fiscal yr 2019.
Thousands extra enter illegally by the U.S.-Mexico border however can’t be despatched again as a result of Cuba received’t take them.
Cuban exiles say the Cuban authorities can’t be trusted to abide by an immigration accord. They say Cuba opens and closes the move of migrants to serve its political functions.
“The U.S. administration is hurting the cause of a free Cuba,” stated Luis Zuniga of the Assembly of Cuban Resistance. “The dictatorship needs to be sanctioned, secluded and isolated, no have us solve their problem.”
Cuba blames U.S. sanctions and the closing of the American Consular Office in Havana for the uptick in unlawful immigration to the U.S.