Cuba Migrant Crisis 2016: Mexico To Grant Temporary Visas For People On Way To US

By Tim Marcin @TimMarcin
On 01/14/16 AT 11:31 AM

A Cuban migrant arrives after she traveled from Costa Rica to El Salvador and continued by bus to the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, in Chiapas state, Mexico, Jan. 13, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Jose Torres

Mexico said it planned to grant temporary, 20-day transit visas to 180 Cubans stuck in Costa Rica en route to the United States, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Cuban migrants were chosen out of thousands stranded in Costa Rica.

The National Migration Institute said Cubans will not be permitted to stay after the expiration of the temporary visas, which were given for humanitarian reasons, Reuters reported. The migrants' arrival marks the start of pilot program agreed upon last month that would allow the migrants to move toward the U.S. from Costa Rica where they had been stuck since mid-November after Nicaragua shut its borders. The first group of 180, chosen out of an estimated 8,000 migrants stranded in Costa Rica, flew to El Salvador Tuesday and rode in buses to Mexico Wednesday.

The flow of Cuban migrants headed to the U.S. has surged as the two nations have begun normalizing relations, amid fears of an end to the U.S. policy of automatically granting residency to Cubans who come to the country.
Asylum-Seekers from Cuba by Country in 2015 | FindTheData

Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalez said Wednesday Central American governments would meet next Thursday to evaluate the first trip of migrants and to decide if the program should continue, Reuters reported. The Mexican government has said diplomats are expected to work out how to pay for the migrants' travel. The cost of the trip for each passenger was $555, which paid for airfare, exit taxes, ground transportation and food along the way, La Nacion reported, via teleSUR.

Traveling across land toward the U.S. has become the more common route for Cuban migrants. It is a 7,000-mile trip from Ecuador up through Mexico. But some still attempt to get to the U.S. by sea. The Mexican navy last week rescued nine Cubans drifting on a makeshift boat in the Caribbean.

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More Cubans trying to get to United States, Coast Guard Says

http://youtu.be/LNjvkL2slo4/
Tampa Florida News
02:42
January 11, 2015

Coast Guard Says People Believe The U.S. Immigration Policies Are About To Change.

350% Rescue Increase In The Past 5 yrs. Of Cuban Migrants In The Florida Straights.

they are worried,that with the Obama-Thaw they would be hampered to get to the US and be accepted and given Refugee-Status like before!

Castro wiped Jimmy Carter's face in shite and now it's Obama's turn.

Mexico is getting hit hard.
Cubans, South Americans (& they agreed to Syrians refugees)

Building more & more camps just for the South Americans.
Lots of reports of crime & corruption from everyone, including officials.
And now.. Increased tensions between Mexico & U. S. A.
(Over Cubans & South Americans)
Apparently we are supposed to take everyone.

'Cuban Rescue ' is a completely different set of so called 'immigration', it more or less is an 'unlimited deal'.
(If they make it here they are granted asylum).
Yes..this could change.

Then there is legal & illegal (for everyone else).
Then there is so called 'refugee' statues.
Then there is st least 4 types of ' Visas'

So what ever number people read is NOT a total number... Of new people. It is deceiving.

[Example:
100,000 Legal Immigrants from (just) Syria in 2015. Plus over 100,000 Syrian Refugee Status coming in.
(Not counting other countries, allegedly cleared by the U.N.)
On top of 13 million illegals (mostly), Mexico & South America
(Not counting) all legals from everywhere]

It really is an endless stream of people, astronomical expense on taxpayers & excessive , unnecessary risk.
How many people is too many ?
How much money is too much ?
How much risk is too much
jeopardy?

But ... it is all rainbows & unicorns right ? We dance in the sun & sing in the rain.
Money grows on trees & we can rent space from Canada


* rectorial *

Wait!

Mexico has a navy?

even have UDTs!

About time Congress got to work and actually voted both money and powers to the appropriate authorities to address this.

No sign at all that they are willing to do so.

You seem to miss the advancements in technology! Mexico has an advanced space program.