Rush of Cuban migrants use Mexican routes to U.S.

“Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in more than a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west - to Mexico - in a convoluted route that avoids the U.S. Coast Guard.

U.S. officials say the spike in migration is due to a lack of hope for change on the island, since Raúl Castro took over as president from his other brother Fidel last year. The Cuban authorities contend the migration is more economic than political, fueled by Washington’s policy of rewarding Cubans who enter the United States illegally.”*

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