AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Expulsion of Cubans begins, still no solution to the problem of migrants

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Internet

San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - There are 56 Cubans ready to be expelled from Costa Rica to Havana as a result of new immigration measures adopted in this country, according to the National Bureau for Migration. On December 18, the President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis confirmed the withdrawal of Costa Rica from the political forums of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and justified the decision with the lack of solidarity with the immigration problem facing his country from Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize, and warned that Cubans who enter illegally in Costa Rica will be expelled.
The group of 56 Cubans are at the Centro de Aprehensión Temporal in Hatillo, where they will directly go towards Havana, also because, the statement said, "no other country has offered to accept them".
In this situation the only certainty is the activity of criminal gangs and the so-called "coyotes", that ask up to $1,200 for a "little help" to cross the border, which then never happens, because all migrants are abandoned in deserted places or even robbed and beaten.
Despite the fact that even the Holy Father launched an appeal on behalf of these migrants (see Fides 28/12/2015), the situation is beginning to assume the connotations of an international political crisis if all the Central American countries involved do not intervene. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 29/12/2015)


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