Hundreds of Cubans deported after US immigration status end: Cuba
AFP February 18, 2017
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Cuban migrants, who often travel through Panama to reach the US, can now be deported unless they can convince US officials that they fear persecution or have valid humanitarian reasons to be let in (AFP Photo/RODRIGO ARANGUA) More
Havana (AFP) - More than 680 Cubans have been deported back to Cuba since the United States ended its decades-old policy giving them preferred immigrant status in January, state media reported Saturday.
According to official Cuban reports, 683 people have been sent back to the Caribbean island from the United States, or from Mexico, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, where they were crossing in a bid to reach the US border.
On January 12, then-president Barack Obama scrapped with immediate effect a 1995 policy that had given Cubans near-automatic entry to the United States if they managed to set foot on American soil, regardless of their visa status. Cubans attempting to enter the country by sea had been turned back.
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