Thread: Colombia will deport Cubans crossing through country trying to get to U.S.

Colombia will deport Cubans crossing through country trying to get to U.S.

Published August 02, 2016 EFE

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BOGOTÁ – The more than 2,000 Cuban migrants who have congregated in the northwestern Colombian border town of Turbo near the Panamanian border and who want to continue their journeys to the United States, will be deported to their home country or to the country they came from to illegally enter Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday.
According to what Santos told local media, Colombian authorities are speaking with the migrants to learn if "they prefer to return to their countries of origin or ... to return to the country they came from" to enter Colombia.
He also said that Colombian authorities are trying to prevent more migrants from entering the country.
In addition, Santos said that authorities had detailed people who were facilitating "people smuggling" and are investigating officials who might be the accomplices of traffickers in undocumented migrants and "who may be providing them with false documents to ... facilitate their transit."
Turbo is the main Caribbean port in Colombia's Uraba region and, due to its geographic position, it is used by Cubans, Asians and Africans as a springboard for traveling to the United States via Panama.
Last week, the Turbo Mayor's Office declared a public emergency due to the presence of the Cuban migrants, of whom 1,273 are being housed in a warehouse and others nearby.
Over the past two months, Colombia has deported 5,800 undocumented migrants, most of them Haitian or Cuban, according to figures compiled by Colombian immigration authorities.

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This immigration is a mess caused by poor immigration policies of the US and it effecting a lot of countries that have nothing to do with the decisions that are made.

Hundreds of Cuban migrants in Colombia await deportation

800 US-bound migrants in jungle on Panama-Colombia border

By AFP 17 hours ago in World

Around 800 US-bound migrants, most of them from Haiti, Africa, Asia and Cuba, are currently in dense jungle on the Panama-Colombia border, Panama's president said Friday, describing it as "another migration crisis."

The migrants are in the Darien Gap, a swampy forested area teeming with snakes that lies across the border, Juan Carlos Varela told reporters before heading to the region.

No roads cross the southern border, and passage by foot is dangerous and uncertain.

Varela said that the land border was closed but admitted that migrants were crossing it to get past authorities.

He said the number of border patrol officers there had been reinforced but stressed: "This is not Panama's problem, but a global problem."

Many of the migrants were Haitians, he said, who had gone to Brazil after a 2010 earthquake devastated their country. Brazil's current deep recession has motivated them to try to get to the United States through Central America.

Varela said he had talked the issue over with Luis Guillermo Solis, president of Costa Rica.

That northern neighbor was facing its own migration problems with the inflow, hosting around 2,500 migrants unable to get past the next border, into Nicaragua, where security to catch visitors without visas has been greatly increased since late last year.

Colombia, the South American country many migrants use to enter Panama, has adopted emergency measures against illegal migration and is currently looking to deport hundreds of stranded Cubans.

US-bound migrants in jungle on Panama-Colombia border