Cuban’s family and friends Roiler Camejo Velázquez They asked for help locating him after he disappeared in the Rio Grande while trying to invade US territory via the Mexican town of Piedras Negras.
This is another undocumented migrant who attempted to cross the dangerous tributary through the area separating Piedras Negras, Coahuila, from Eagle Pass, Texas, on the night of April 16, confirmed CyberCuba a familiar.
He tells that Camejo Vélazquez, 36 years old and resident of cast The 40, At Las Tunas, he attempted to cross into the United States from the border town, jumping the Rio Grande with his uncle to enter through Texas.
Nevertheless, strong currents separated them and their whereabouts have been unknown ever sincehe voiced.
The uncle was ahead and when he looked back the young man was gone, added another close friend.
His uncle managed to touch US soil through the area in question, but it’s not known if the young man reached another border crossing or succumbed to the Bravo, which has claimed at least 10 lives over the past week.
The source stated that the two men entered Mexico via the borders of Nicaragua, like thousands of Cubans who follow this route to reach the US border.
A picture of the young man and a description was posted on the Facebook group “Families United in the Search and Location of Disappeared Persons” and stated that he is 1.85 meters tall, has a robust complexion and slanted green eyes.
When he crossed the river, he was wearing a red sweater and black pants.
As a special sign, she has a tattoo with the name Bianka on her right arm.
It also emerged this Friday that 33-year-old Cuban Yanisley Pérez Jairo is missing in Mexico, where she was part of the same migratory journey that Cubans are making northward from Nicaragua.
The Rio Grande — particularly in the Piedras Negras area, the preferred area for migrants attempting to cross the tributary — has claimed at least one life 10 people in the last week. The lifeless body of a man wearing gray pants, white sneakers and a blue shirt was found near the town of Piedras Negras on Thursday morning.
This Friday also drowned one Texas National Guard agent trying to rescue a woman from strong currents.
Three other bodies, all male, were found Wednesday.
Facing the inexorable influx of undocumented immigrants from the island, the governments of Cuba and the United States resumed bilateral migration talks in Washington on Thursday, at a time of peak diplomatic tensions between the two countries and amid evidence of a mass exodus from Cuba , which raised the alarms of the Joe Biden administration.
Statistics updated last Monday night by the Department of Homeland Security painted a worrying picture of the rush of Cubans toward the United States, particularly through Mexico’s border strip: 78,903 migrants from the island arrived via points from the southern border in the first six months of fiscal year 2022 (FY22) and of them 32,141 did so this past March.
The figure not only doubles the total of 39,303 who entered through border crossings in 2021, but also means that a total of 110,340 Cubans have entered irregularly through the southern border since Biden arrived at the White House just 14 months ago.