300,000 Cubans fled island & requested asylum in 2023

From our Bureau of Weaponized Migration with some assistance from our Bureau of Extremely Widespread Diasporas

The numbers say it all. Castrogonia is an uninhabitable island that could easily become an empty wasteland if every Cuban were to be given the chance to leave. Nearly a third of a million Cubans fled last year, applying for asylum in 49 different nations throughout the world. See map above. Yet, this is the very same Caribbean dystopia that so many Latrine Americans venerate and try to imitate. Go figure. Meanwhile, while so many fled, 33,000 other Cubans became American citizens.

Loosely translated from CiberCuba

According to the latest figures revealed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), during the year 2023, more than 300 thousand Cubans requested asylum in different parts of the world.

The data marks a significant increase compared to previous years and reveals an upward trend in the Cuban migratory flow, according to the independent media ElTOQUE.

The United States leads as the main recipient of refugee requests, with a total of 241,553 Cubans seeking protection in its territory. The figure represents 75.67% of the total of 319,200 asylum seekers.

Mexico follows in second place, with 24,957 applications. The proximity of the Aztec country to the United States, the rejections at the US border, the visa facilities that were opened with the arrival of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power, the exemption of visas through Nicaragua, as well as the flow of thousands of Cubans who travel the so-called “Central American route” explain the oversized presence of Cubans in Mexico and, therefore, the increase in asylum requests in that country.

During 2023, Cubans requested asylum in 49 countries, most of them belonging to Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that, with its geographical, language and cultural proximity, attracted more than 40 thousand Cubans.

In total, 41,613 Cubans sought asylum in Uruguay, Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

A relevant fact is the high number of Cubans who have transited through Honduras irregularly, with the aim of reaching the United States. According to the National Migration Institute of Honduras, more than 85,000 Cubans crossed the Central American country during 2023, mostly adult men of working age.

For its part, the European Union received applications from 5,631 Cubans, becoming the third region with the highest number of asylum seekers from the Island. Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Greece were the countries that processed the most asylum application files. of Cubans.

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