Report: Trump Administration Deported 13K to Mexico
- Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday documenting the Trump administration's deportation of over 4,300 Cubans to Mexico, making them the largest group among nearly 13,000 third-country nationals sent there since January 2025.
- The mass targeting of long-term Cuban permanent residents represents a policy shift from prior administrations; previously, the absence of US-Cuba deportation agreements protected them, but President Donald Trump's second term reversed this approach.
- Of 41 Cuban migrants interviewed, 35 lost green cards for minor offenses like driving under the influence or document falsification; only 16 percent had violent crime charges. Most deportees are 60 or older with chronic health conditions.
- Deported to Tapachula and Villahermosa in southern Mexico without documents or belongings, deportees face legal limbo as Cuba refuses readmission and Mexico offers no alternative to asylum. Harold A., a 58-year-old Cuban, said, "We're casting us aside to die."
- The report's release coincides with escalating US-Cuba tensions; earlier this month the US indicted 94-year-old former Cuban President Raúl Castro on charges regarding the downing of two civilian planes in 1996. Asylum remains the only pathway to legal status, though deportees living decades outside Cuba may lack persecution fears.
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While Washington tightens pressure on Cuba by restricting fuel supplies and tightening economic sanctions, it has also increased the siege on Cuban migrants living in the United States.Nowhere is the consequences more evident than in Mexico, which in just over a year has received some 4,353 Cuban deportees, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Throughout southern Mexico, Cuban migrants—some of them deported for having a criminal re…
The organization documented that thousands of Cubans expelled by the United States remain in Mexico without papers, housing or access to medical care
HRW report accuses US and Mexico of abandoning thousands of Cuban deportees
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) made numerous recommendations to the Mexican government in a scathing report documenting the inadequate support it has given to Cuban deportees from the U.S., despite agreeing to receive them.
HRW: Trump administration deports third-country nationals to Mexico without due process
In a detailed report released on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Trump administration of deporting almost 13,000 third-country nationals between January 2025 and March 2026 without due process or access to basic services. The report detailed the experiences of 53 deportees, most of whom fled political repression in Cuba and arrived in the US many years ago. They have since built businesses, purchased homes, and settled with famil…
The bus arrived in Villahermosa at 2 a.m. Mexican immigration agents removed their wives and told them they were free. No one explained to them where to sleep, how to get food or what to do next. Some were wearing detention clothes. Many were over 60 years old. Several were sick.
Report: Trump Deported Nearly 13K Non-Mexican Migrants To Mexico
Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Look, President Donald Trump might not be the first president to deport undocumented migrants en masse, but there’s no denying that his administration’s approach to mass deportation has been one that seems to be indifferent to human suffering at best, and intentionally cruel and bigoted at worst. So, it should come as no surprise that since the start of the administration’s immigration crackdown it has deporte…
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