According to information provided by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) through X's profile, 24 Cuban nationals, including a woman, arrived on Tuesday on the island. They had an irregular immigration status in the United States, aboard a deportation flight from this nation bound for José Martí International Airport in Havana.
On Monday, one day earlier, members of the US Coast Guard returned four rafters to the largest of the Antilles, disembarking at the port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, Artemisa.
These two operations bring the number of Cuban deportations from different countries in the region to 87 this year.
It is worth noting that the agency refers to the calendar year, which runs from January to December and does not correspond to the fiscal year established for data registration in the United States, which begins on October 1.
So far, the number of returned Cubans who have failed in their attempt to escape their homeland and seek a better life abroad stands at 1,255.
The deportation flight that preceded this one arrived on October 31 in the Caribbean nation, guaranteeing the return of a group of 34 migrants, made up of 31 men and 3 women. This air operation was the first carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) during fiscal year 2025.
Deportation flights from the United States to Cuba were suspended in December 2020 and reinstated in April 2023 after both governments reached certain agreements to address the acute migration crisis.
The flight carried out last month brought the number of Cubans deported under the Biden administration to 912, with a total of 19 such air operations being recorded, according to figures provided by ICE and cited by Café Fuerte.
Therefore, taking into account the migrants who returned to the island by air on Tuesday, it can be concluded that since April of last year until now, 936 Cubans have been deported on board 20 flights.
In September, another plane from the United States landed in Havana carrying 62 Cuban migrants, of whom 7 were women and 55 were men.
In August, Cuban authorities received another group of Cuban migrants who were travelling on a deportation flight from the United States. At that time, the number of deportees was 48 (43 women and 5 men).
On July 18, 40 men and 14 women also arrived in Cuba, for a total of 54 irregular migrants, who traveled on a flight originating in the United States.
On June 20, another group of 56 Cuban citizens was deported to the island by air from the United States, in this case 12 women and 44 men.
As can be seen, the number of deportees on Tuesday is the lowest in the last five months.
In this regard, it is important to emphasize that the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that he intends to carry out an unprecedented mass deportation after assuming the presidency on January 20.
However, several immigration lawyers have argued that Cubans are likely to be the least affected by this initiative, since those born on the island enjoy an enormous privilege: the Cuban Adjustment Act, which supports them in the immigration field.
