Third deportation flight from the US to Cuba

US President Donald Trump promised to cut the irregular migratory flow. In the case of Cuba, since its arrival at the White House at least three deportation flights with Cuban immigrants have landed on the island, in addition the so -called «humanitarian parole» was revoked and the CBP One application was left without effect for asylum appointments on the border.

«I had the Parole and I hope to get to the United States,» the Cuban Naydin Hernández told Reuters.

The Cuban who sought to reach the US through the probation process implemented by the administration of Joe Biden and then deactivated by her successor in the Oval office, said she was looking to meet with her daughter, whom she has not seen for four years.

The lady interviewed in the Havana Malecon lamented the change in American immigration policy.

After the worsening of the socio -political and economic situation, there was a stampede of Cubans towards other latitudes, mainly to the United States, after a visa exemption agreement between Managua and Havana, signed in November 2021, facilitated the route of hundreds of thousands of Cubans to the southern border of the United States.

«This is an emptying that occurs mainly in recent years, let’s say 2020 to here, in which more than one million people have abandoned the country, in non-war conditions,» said Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos, Cuban economist and demographer in statements to Reuters.

The academic clarified that the figure could be much higher than that exposed by the regime.

The number of Cubans residing on the island at the end of 2024 amounted to only 8,025,624, well below 9,748,532 reported by the National Office of Statistics and Information (Onei), the expert said.

Albizu-Campos has said that a population reduction as steep as what has been seen on the island «has only been observed in armed conflict contexts» so that the situation of Cuba should be described as a «demographic crisis» or «systemic».

According to data from the United States Customs and Border Protection Office, more than 700 thousand Cubans arrived in US territory in the last four years, but after the change of policy many fear because the flow is reversed.

«Those people left Cuba, they are Cuban citizens and it is logical that they deport them here,» Mario Caso, resident of Havana, told Reuters.

«The country is not marching to the best way, if more people come fast, perhaps that complicates the situation more. The shortage of products and electricity is lived, and with those people there may be greater pressure on services and more discontent. They are complicated moments right now in Cuba,» said the young man.

For its part, the Havana regime argues that the migratory agreements with the US are in force and that the mass deportations announced by Trump since its campaign, in the case of Cuba, are unlikely.

«It is not realistic,» said Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuban Vice Chancellor.

The official considered that the proposed changes are drastic and unfair: «pretending to deport tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, from Cubans- which are the figures that are sometimes handled-, uproot people who have already made their lives in the United States.»

The Castro official maintains that by virtue of the established they are Cubans who have traveled out of the country, that his departure from the island was legal for the purposes of Cuba and that they can return.