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For: The opinion Posted 23 Jan 2023, 16:15 pm EST
The US immigration authorities reminded migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on Monday that since yesterday Sunday the plan came into effect that allows them to be immediately deported to Mexico if they lack prior approval of a request for humanitarian permission to enter the country.
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reiterated that immigrants from these four countries must request prior authorization to travel to the United Statesand those who enter the country undocumented will be expelled to the neighboring country “quickly”.
On January 5, President Joe Biden announced a plan to stop the large flow of immigrants across the southern border of the country.
Under the plan, The United States will accept about 30,000 asylum seekers a month from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haitithus expanding a program for which it already granted humanitarian permits to Venezuelans.
Those who are deported to the neighboring country for crossing the southern border irregularly will not be able to access humanitarian permits, nor will those who arrive “illegally” in Panama and Mexico be able to request it, CBP reiterated in its messages via Twitter.
To apply for humanitarian parole, immigrants from those four countries must have a sponsor in the United Statesthat guarantees that it will provide them with housing and food, among other necessities.
With this plan, the White House intends to contain the arrival of immigrants to the southern border of the United States, which continues to register large numbers. In December 2022, CBP reported that it intercepted 216,162 people at the country’s southwest border, representing an 11% increase in the number of encounters over November.
In a statement, CBP warned that the increase was “driven in large part by more people fleeing authoritarian regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua“.
However, he pointed out that Venezuelans, who previously were part of that increase, continue to arrive in “much smaller numbers as a result of the immigration control process that includes expulsions to Mexico and legal channels” applied since last October.
“Venezuelans have decreased from approximately 1,100 per day (the week before that process was announced), to approximately 100 per day steadily throughout December.
With information from Efe.
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