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First flight of Cuban migrants arrives at Mexico border town

A group of Cuban migrants arrived to Nuevo Laredo on Tuesday as part of a January agreement struck between Costa Rica and Mexico.

First flight of Cuban migrants arrives at Mexico border town
10/02/2016 |17:08Reuters |
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A group of Cuban migrants arrived to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on the U.S. border, on Tuesday as part of a January agreement struck between Costa Rica and Mexico.

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement that 113 Cubans arrived on a flight from Costa Rica.

In January, Mexico and Central American countries approved a plan for flights to allow the more than 7,000 Cubans trapped in Costa Rica since mid-November when Nicaragua closed its borders to continue on to the United States.

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Thousands of Cubans have turned to the Central American route to try to reach the United States, spurred by fears that a recent detente between Havana and Washington will end preferential U.S. asylum rights for Cubans that allow them to enter the United States by land without a visa. Those found at sea are deported.