The flow of Cubans leaving the island has continued unabated since Fidel Castro ''temporarily'' ceded power to his brother Raúl -- but the majority of Cuban migrants now arrives at the Mexican border.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY achardy@MiamiHerald.com
In the year since Fidel Castro ''temporarily'' ceded power to his younger brother Raúl, Cuban migrants have continued to leave the island amid indications that departures may match or exceed the same period last year. And most are coming by way of Mexico.
Already, the number of Cuban migrant arrivals this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, exceeds the total for all of fiscal year 2006 -- with a majority showing up at the Mexican border instead of the Florida Straits. Overall figures that include interdictions are lagging behind last fiscal year, though not by much.
Cuban migrants, many of them smuggled by fast boat from Cuba to Cancún, Mexico, are arriving all along the border from San Diego, Calif., to Brownsville, Texas. But most of those migrants are crossing through the Texas cities of Brownsville, Laredo and McAllen, said Jennifer Connors, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman in Washington.
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More Cubans go through Mexico
