With Trump’s anti -immigration policy, Cubans give up the United States and ask for a shelter in Mexico
In 70, Rigla Martinez left Cuba To meet your daughter and your granddaughter in the United States. However, with the president’s campaign to combat immigration Donald TrumpMartinez changed his way and went to Mexico.
“I have a daughter and four granddaughters in the United States, but the plan now is to go to Mexico and work,” she explained to Agence France -Presse in Danley Migratory in Honduras on the borders of Nicaragua.
Travings Martinez, with his 41 -year -old children, Eler and Nirca, 48, who also excluded the go to the United States, although his daughter is alive in the country.
“I want to stay in Mexico, where my daughter can come to visit us,” she said.
They flew on a Hvana leased plane to Mangoa, where they went north by bus with dozens of other immigrants whose destination was unconfirmed. Cuban immigrant Misel Soto, 39, is also ready to stay in Mexico, although he has friends who can receive him in Las Vegas and Miami, USA.
“My wife is in Tabsola, Mexico, waiting for me,” Soto said, adding that his wife “gets the help of the (Mexican) government because she has two children.”
Cubans were distinguished immigrants
Cubans were distinguished immigrants in USA After the 1959 revolution, but its benefits were gradually limited with Trump’s return to the White House. Now they are dealt with without any consideration by the Republicans, which led to the paralysis of the benefits of the human programs created by their predecessors, Joe Biden, for immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti.
The Trump government has also repeated the border with Mexico To prevent irregular entry of migrants and announced that it will lead to the abolition of the legal status of half a million Cuban, Haitayen, Nicaragons and Venezuelan, which gives them weeks to leave USA.
In addition, the president also sent half a million immigrants, most of them from Asia, to Costa Rica and Panama, countries that work as a bridge to deport from other countries. It was also sent to El Salvador approximately 300 Venezuelali, who – without any evidence – are also members of Aragua Tren. Many of them have been deported without due legal procedures or any condemnation and relationship with the gangs.
Between January and March only this year, Mexico received more than 8000 Cuban shelter requests, according to the High Commissioner for him For refugees. In 2024, Mexico received 17,884 requests, according to official Mexican figures.
