From our Bureau of the New Improved Dry Foot Wet Foot Policy with some assistance from our Bureau of Vanishing National Boundaries
Why risk your life on a flimsy raft or homemade vessel when you can just go to Mexico and saunter into the U.S.A.? Unlike the 13 Cubans in the boat most recently intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, those 10,000 who snuck across the border in January will NOT be returned to Cuba.
Jar-Jar Biden’s erasure of the border between the U.S. and Mexico is making it possible for thousands of Cubans to waltz into the U.S. without visas, along with hundreds of thousands of other “undocumented” migrants.
Getting to Mexico is tricky and requires some money, but Cubans with relatives in the U.S. — usually of the Yo-Yo variety — can get the cash they need, fly to Nicaragua, which doesn’t require visas, and then trek north through Mexico.
At the present monthly rate, which is not expected to diminish, about 120,000 Cubans will flood into the U.S. in 2022.
Loosely translated from CiberCuba
The irregular arrival of Cubans across the southern border of the United States rose to a record number of 9,714 during last January, accentuating the escalation of an exodus that is beginning to worry authorities in Washington.
According to data from the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) obtained by CiberCuba, the uncontrolled flow through Mexican border points rose to 30,190 Cubans registered by US authorities in the first four months of fiscal year 2022, which began last October 1st.
The border statistics add another 113 Cubans arriving through areas of the northern border and 842 rafters intercepted on maritime crossings in the current fiscal period, which marks the signs of an unprecedented stampede from Cuba and transit points, with clear edges of a migration crisis.
Although the figures of entries through the Mexican border during February are not yet available, a CBP official told CiberCuba that “they remain at a very high level.”
The situation is beginning to set off alarms among officials of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and members of the administration who see the massive influx of Cubans as a growing problem in the already long list of tensions between Washington and Havana.