In 2024, according to official figures, 93 returns occurred from different countries in the region, with a total of 1,384 Cubans deported.
Archive image of the arrival of a deportation flight from the US to Cuba in 2024
On Friday January 3, the first deportation flight of 2025 arrived in Havana, with 19 Cuban migrants from the Bahamas.
The group of 16 men and 3 women, most of them residents in the province of Ciego de Ávila, arrived through the José Martí International Airport.
Cuba, which is going through an unprecedented mass exodus, received 1,384 deported Cubans in 93 returns from different countries in the region in 2024, according to official figures.
More than 42,000 Cubans in the United States have deportation orders but the Government of Havana refuses to accept them, a Fox report recently revealed that cites reports from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
This figure includes people who have been processed by immigration judges but have not yet been repatriated. The report notes that Mexico could become a starting point for mass deportations planned under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
At the beginning of last December, the governments of the United States and Cuba held a bilateral meeting on migration issues to review, among other issues, the implementation of the Migration Agreements begun in 1984.
At the meeting, according to Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío, the proposal for mass deportations was not addressed.
Deportation flights for Cubans from the United States resumed in April 2023, after they were paralyzed at the end of 2020.