Ten Cuban migrants deported to Havana
(CNS): Another ten Cuban migrants were flown back to the neighbouring island last week, the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control Service has confirmed. The men, who were deported on a chartered Cayman Airways SAAB from Grand Cayman, included one migrant released from HMP Northward after he was convicted and sentenced for escaping lawful custody.
CBC Director Charles Clifford said it was another successful repatriation by the CBC team, and thanked his staff as well as the Cuban government for providing the approvals for the return of the migrants.
“Our repatriation operations will continue until all migrants who have been denied asylum in the Cayman Islands are returned to their country of nationality,” Clifford said.
There are now around 250 Cuban migrants in the Cayman Islands in CBC custody who are either awaiting deportation or a decision on asylum claims. They are all being housed on Grand Cayman at the detention centre or district civic centres.
While migrants had been arriving weekly during the second half of 2022, arrivals have slowed this year, with the last migrant boat entering Cayman waters in January.
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Why would Cayman’s official position be to defend the integrity of the communist regime instead of allowing migrants (risking it all) to carry on to freedom and self-determination in the USA? As a basic human courtesy, and as a self-ascribed Christian society, we ought to be giving them assistance. That means computer time to contact their relatives in the USA to put together their Form I-134 CBC application, secure Advance Travel Authorization, buy a plane ticket, and reset their life on a new and improved path. Migrants given a chance might even come back as wealthy Cayman visitors one day. If Clifford can’t help these people that genuinely need our help, or adapt to a changing migrant policy landscape, then he shouldn’t be in that role and must be replaced. We have to try. https://www.uscis.gov/CHNV
No worries, they will be back next week.
There needs to be another express lane other than asylum or repatriation. If these migrants have US-resident sponsoring relatives, they can now legally board a CAL flight to MIA with qualifying paperwork, under the CBC parole program, and with no risk to life or limb. We can even serve them a delicious rum punch on that flight.
250 too many. Get ypur fingers out
Did they negotiate an exchange for any of our Caymanians being held prisoner there?
These aren’t prisoners.