| | |  Americas & Beyond | August 2008 
Cuba Blames U.S. for Undocumented People Traffic
 Mathaba News Network
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| | According to Cuba`s official daily Granma, the Cuban-U.S. mafias charge each of the immigrants around 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. dollars to avoid them from being detained. | | |
Havana - Cuba blamed the United States Friday for its responsibility on the illegal immigration of many Cubans to Mexico and Florida, which is a millionaire business controlled by Cuban-U.S. "mafia" gangs since years ago.
According to Cuba's official daily Granma, the Cuban-U.S. mafias charge each of the immigrants around 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. dollars to avoid them from being detained.
The "dangerous" business that prevails in the Mexican Gulf is mainly attributed to the refusal of the White House to give Cubans visas, the impunity of the operations of those mafia groups and the Cuban Adjustment Law adopted by the U.S. congress, according to Granma.
Granma, an organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, said that Cubans' arrival in the U.S. is supported by the Cuban Adjustment Law, which gives them the legal rights once they enter the U.S. territory. However, the U.S. does not fulfill its promise of giving 20,000 visas as agreed with Cuba.
In the U.S., millions of undocumented immigrants are at many times hunted like animals, and sent to prison or deported to their country of origin.
Granma said that the beaches of the Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatan are the starting points for the growing business of trafficking Cubans to the U.S., which makes a profit of at least 80 million dollars every year.
Granma said that Cubans are picked up in Cuban territory in speed boats and then taken to Mexican coasts. Other groups take them from Belize and Guatemala by land, and still others by plane.
Local press has denounced the participators of the trafficking business such as the Cuban American National foundation (FNCA) and Mexican gangs like the Gulf cartel and its operative arm "Los Zetas", as well as Los Amigos de Patricio and La Comitiva. |
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