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Cubans flocking to migrant shelter at Southern Arizona border seeking asylum

Lyda Longa Sierra Vista Herald

AGUA PRIETA, Sonora — In the last two months, Cubans bolting from the island nation have been flocking to a migrant shelter at the Southern Arizona border with Mexico, making up the majority of the undocumented people crammed into the facility who are seeking asylum in the United States.

Beto Ramos, director of Centro de Atención al Migrante Exodus (Center of Attention for the Migrant in Exodus) says that since August, 80 percent of the people taking up the 44 beds in the facility have been from Cuba.

“They are coming in from all parts of Mexico,” Ramos said in Spanish. “We were getting people from Mexico and Central America, which is common. But all of a sudden, since August, our majority has been from Cuba.”

Read more at: https://www.havasunews.com/news/cubans-flocking-to-migrant-shelter-at-southern-arizona-border-seeking/article_fd0897c8-0099-11ea-a145-63145cb99623.html

What an utter mess here....