The Venezuelan airline Conviasa will be able to operate flights for repatriated migrants from any nation in the Western Hemisphere. This was confirmed by the current United States administration after lifting several sanctions against the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services. The regulation replacing the previous one is General License No. 45A. It clarifies that Conviasa or any of its subsidiaries in which the Consortium holds at least a 50% stake may operate deportation flights without any restrictions. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) emphasized that the airline may only repatriate Venezuelans.
Conviasa's entire fleet was blocked by OFAC on August 5, 2019, pursuant to Executive Order 13884. Six months later, the United States restricted the passage of Conviasa vessels through its airspace.
Convenient deportation of migrants
With the new OFAC regulation, issued on November 18, deportation flights are further intensified, especially from American soil, reflects The JournalTroy Miller, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), addressed the issue. "Individuals and families who do not have a legal basis to remain in the U.S. will be deported."
The deportations not only affect Venezuelans—in fact, 238 have returned to their country so far—but also Cuban citizens. Conviasa planes will also be used to return nationals to the island.
Speaking of deportations, the seventh flight from the United States arrived in Havana on October 26. The plane carried 27 Cubans who attempted to enter the United States without authorization.
Official figures indicate that since the resumption of deportation flights in April and until October, the Biden administration has returned 349 Cubans.
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I don't understand the details of the deportations, these people who return to the island do so with no hope of anything, and what's more, with nothing. 99 percent of Cubans who remain sell everything to leave and fulfill their expectations of a better life. When they return, they are people prone to committing inhuman acts to survive. Robberies, massacres, and more violence follow. In a society that has lost values, we should not intensify or be the main promoters of these acts. I don't think leaving them alone is the solution.
It is not convenient for Cuba or the US, we know the reasons.
What I don't understand is why the Cuban government wants Cubans forced to repatriate to the island who no longer have a place to live, who are families who perhaps are not interested in working or living in Cuba, where they will not have food, where they will not sleep, who will only be a social burden that with what remains on the island is not enough for 50% of those who live there, why do they want these people if they can't even go to jail because there is no more room for anyone else, there is no food even in the same. I don't know what the government is looking for with this measure, I remember one time when you left this country for here they did not want you back unless you were a resident with money that you were going to spend in this country, because that is what has always interested the capitalist elite of the henchmen of this system.