Official figures shared by United States authorities revealed that, by the end of fiscal year 2023, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) was monitoring a total of 442,624 Cubans who had warrants of expulsion or appearance notices in your name.
An official report posted on the ICE website points out that these Cubans are part of the “non-detained” files of the government agency.
This list includes people released from agency custody with final deportation orders, with pending deportation proceedings and who were issued Notices to Appear by components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The numbers shared by ICE revealed that, during fiscal year 2023, there was a considerable growth in the total number of “non-detained” files of various nationalities that had to be monitored by the agency.
This growth was 30.3%, going from 4.7 million in fiscal year 2022 to more than 6.2 million in the following period.
The agency believes that the increase was due to the arrests of non-citizens by the US Border Patrol (USBP) on the southwest border and the transfer of these cases to the Enforcement and Removal Office (ERO) for further processing.
The data indicates that, of the more than 6.2 million ICE “non-detained” files, 21% have final deportation orders, so they can be arrested and returned to their country of origin at any time. If that same percentage remains with Cubans, then it is possible that some 92,500 of them run the same risk.
Those migrants with pending cases are monitored through the Intensive Supervision and Appearance Program (ISAP), which includes measures such as telephone reporting, Global Positioning System (GPS) surveillance, and biometric facial matching. These measures are necessary to guarantee compliance with immigration legal processes while their cases are resolved.
Countries with the highest number of “non-detained” citizens under surveillance in the US
When the figures are analyzed, it can be seen that Cubans represent 8.85% of the total “non-detained” people who are under ICE surveillance, which places them in sixth position on the list of those most monitored by ICE. .
Honduras leads this group, with 878,653 people, while Guatemala and Mexico are in second and third place with 877,020 and 774,974, respectively.
For its part, El Salvador is placed fourth on the list with 554,586 people under surveillance in the United States. The latest country to surpass Cuba is Venezuela, with 465,476 of its citizens being monitored in the country.
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