Mexico new chosen route for cuban smugglers

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Source: Cuba News Headlines. Cuban Daily News

United States officials, quoted by Reuters news service, are calculating that 89 percent of the Cuban immigrants enter the US today by way of the Mexico-US border, instead of traveling via the dangerous Miami route, crossing the 145 kilometers of the Florida Straits.

The very profitable business is based on the existence of the so called Cuba Adjustment Act, an inhumane law that Washington uses to try and destabilize the situation in Cuba. The law gives Cubans near automatic residence if they make it alive to US territory, no matter how they came.

The National Institute of Immigration quotes the number of undocumented Cubans detained in Mexico as multiplying from 254 in 2002 to 2205 last year. During the first semester of 2007, 876 illegal Cuban immigrants have been intercepted and 271 sent back to Cuba. Mexican sources note that the great majority are set free after a 90 day detention period.

Quite differently from other Latin American migrants, once at the US border, they just present themselves to the authorities and the matters over. That’s exactly what happened with terrorist Luis Posada Carriles who passed through Isla Mujeres on his illegal entry to the United States, using the illegal network created from Miami.

Read more: http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2007/09/21/5940/mexico_new_chosen_route_for_cuban_smugglers.html

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This is the first time I have heard that Cuban immigrants come through Mexico. The real danger of sailing straight to Florida is that they run the risk of being picked up at sea.

I don't know anything about this source, but the articles on its home page seem to be pro-Cuba and not RW.