In case of a Cuban mother and her 8 year old daughterthe goods returned to Mexico after crossing the border into the United States This week’s drama witnesses dozens of emigrants from Cuba stranded in no-man’s-land after the President Joe Biden’s new immigration policy.
The girl Rocio Ruiz He told broadcaster 23 that he felt bad “because they rejected me and I was hoping to come to the United States to start over with a better life.”
Mother, dixai vegareported that she was in Cancun when they closed the border, yet four days later they both entered the United States and surrendered to border police.
They claim the authorities processed them but suddenly put them on a bus and took them back to Mexico.
“They took the direction of where we were going, a process as if we were entering the United States, footprints and all. They sent us to sleep with a nylon sheet they give you. Suddenly they wake us up, it didn’t even take 10 minutes and they put you on a bus,” the woman told the news channel.
Now they are stranded in Tijuana with another group of people and without a chance to benefit from the new immigration plan humanitarian parole the Biden administration.
On January 5, the US President warned against punishing migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti who crossed the border illegally with a five-year sentence during which they would not be able to use the probation program.
A lawyer contacted by the news channel explained that Cubans who crossed the border after that date no longer apply for this mechanism, but those stranded between Mexico and Nicaragua who did not reach the border do border area with the USA You can wait for an answer.
CyberCuba spoke to another Cuban who was also brought back after crossing the border on January 8th and he explained that After his arrival in Mexico he was transferred to Tabascoa state in the south of the country that borders on Guatemala.
There he was released. However, when he tried to get to Mexico City to appear before the National Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR), he was arrested again on the bus he was traveling in.
The authorities took him back to Tabasco and left him at Villa Hermosa. Then he met another group of Cubans in the same condition, in a circle with no apparent solution that worsens the situation of migrants on the island.
They cannot leave Tabasco undocumented and cannot get permission to stay in the country without arriving in Mexico City, he explained.
The only alternative is the coyotes, who will charge $1,000 to drop you off in the country’s capital, the source stressed. Most agree that returning to Cuba, which is experiencing the worst exodus in its history, is not an option for them.