The U.S. repatriates 54 other Cuban migrants to Havana: "No one should risk their lives on unsafe boats"
On January 12, 2017, Barack Obama made the sudden change. Washington, which previously welcomed the people leaving the communist dictatorship instead of deporting them back to Cuba.
U.S. Coast Guard crews have already arrested 6,862 Cuban immigrants, twice as many as the previous fiscal year, as the Cuban regime reported that in 2023, more than 4,000 migrants from the island had been deported mainly from the United States to the Caribbean island. All started on January 12, 2017, when President Obama announced the immediate cessation of the wet feet, dry feet policy. Since then, Cuban nationals who enter the United States illegally, regardless of whether they are intercepted on land or at sea, have been subject to removal. And with Joe Biden in the White House, Cuba accepted to receive its deported nationals. A record of over 10,000 Cubans entered the United States in June.
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