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Hundreds of Cubans arrive in the US illegally every year, many through third countries, or by making the perilous journey from the island to Florida via the Florida Straits. The Caribbean island nation has been under a US economic blockade since 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The refusal by the US Embassy in Havana to issue immigration visas to Cubans incentivises illegal and potentially dangerous forms of migration from Cuba to the US, the Cuban Foreign Ministry has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmong the factors that constitute incentives for irregular migration are the suspension of the processing and granting of immigrant and non-immigrant visas at the United States Consulate in Havana,\u201d the ministry said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0Friday, pointing out that Washington has failed to comply with its commitments to grant a minimum of 20,000 migrant visas per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The ministry promised that Havana would continue working to stop irregular, unsafe and disorderly migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement comes in the wake of increasing illegal migration attempts, including a recently publicised incident involving a US-bound vessel originating from Cuba capsizing near the Bahamas earlier this month with over a dozen people onboard. 12 of the would-be migrants were rescued by a Royal Bahamas Defence Force ship, with person perishing and several others going missing \u2013 including women and two children. Some of the boat\u2019s passengers were reportedly left floating in the water for over 14 hours before being rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relations Frozen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In early 2017, then-Cuban President Raul Castro and outgoing US President Barack Obama signed a joint declaration on immigration matters aimed at reducing dangerous illegal immigration, stopping human trafficking and halting the granting of automatic asylum and residence status to Cubans who make it to US soil.  Since then, direct migration has dropped to about several hundred per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration moved to reverse the Obama-era Cuban-US rapprochement,\u00a0introducing new sanctions\u00a0and import restrictions,\u00a0blocking humanitarian aid, increasing deportations, and nixing the entry of would-be migrants from third countries. After taking office in 2017, he also cut down staff at the Havana Embassy to a skeleton crew, and moved consular services to Guyana. In January 2021, just days before leaving office, Trump\u00a0put Cuba back on\u00a0the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration has been urged to reverse Trump-era policy on Cuba, and confirmed in January that a \u201creview\u201d would take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, no further announcements have been made, and US rhetoric about \u201csupport for democracy and human rights\u201d and using Americans as\u00a0\u201cambassadors for freedom in Cuba\u201d\u00a0have led to concerns that decades-old US policy of seeking to overthrow the island\u2019s communist government will continue under Biden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Cuba-US relations have also been marred in recent years by claims that the island nations\u2019 government has used\u00a0“microwave attacks”\u00a0against the US Embassy in Havana. Cuba has\u00a0denied\u00a0the claims, and\u00a0promised to cooperate\u00a0in any US investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US border services have reported a\u00a0surge in illegal immigration\u00a0in President Biden\u2019s first months in office, with detention facilities filled to capacity and large numbers of unaccompanied minors entering the country via the border with Mexico. Last week, Mexican government sources told Reuters that Biden\u2019s reversal of Trump\u2019s hardline illegal immigration policies has resulted in\u00a0people being turned into a \u201ccommodity\u201d\u00a0by gangs engaged in human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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source: SputnikNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Cubans arrive in the US illegally every year, many through third countries, or by making the perilous journey from the island to Florida […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7975,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/whats-driving-irregular-cuban-emigration-to-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":3939,"position":0},"title":"What\u2019s Driving \u2018Irregular\u2019 Cuban Emigration to the United States?","author":"Editorial Team","date":"February 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"What\u2019s Driving \u2018Irregular\u2019 Cuban Emigration to the United States?","rel":"","context":"In "Featured"","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-02-11-at-20.52.58.png?fit=671%2C444&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-02-11-at-20.52.58.png?fit=671%2C444&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-02-11-at-20.52.58.png?fit=671%2C444&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6405,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/does-u-s-policy-towards-cuba-ever-really-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":3939,"position":1},"title":"Does U.S. Policy Towards Cuba Ever Really Change?","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Iroel S\u00e1nchez on May 23, 2022 On June 29, 2021, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was interviewed by journalist Lucia Duraccio, of the Italian television channel RAI TG1, who asked him following the vote of condemnation by 189 countries of the U.S. blockade against Cuba, which had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "US Aggression"","block_context":{"text":"US Aggression","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/usa\/us-aggression\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/12720587-6ADE-4111-84FE-494AE4ECEA92-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/12720587-6ADE-4111-84FE-494AE4ECEA92-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/12720587-6ADE-4111-84FE-494AE4ECEA92-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/12720587-6ADE-4111-84FE-494AE4ECEA92-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/12720587-6ADE-4111-84FE-494AE4ECEA92-scaled.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4926,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/conversations-with-michael-e-parmly\/","url_meta":{"origin":3939,"position":2},"title":"Conversations with Michael E. 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