Cubans Stranded on Mexico Border Due to 'Wet Foot' Policy Demise Refuse to Return Agencia EFE
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Cuban migrants stranded after end of ‘wet feet, dry feet’ policy (Al Jazeera English)

Scores of Cubans meet every day at the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge in Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border after an odyssey through 10 countries, never knowing if they would achieve their dream of entering the United States, but with the conviction that returning to the island is "not an option."

As more groups of Cubans keep arriving to Nuevo Laredo, approximately 400 are staying at "migrant houses" set up by several churches.

Every day the Cubans gather there, just steps away from Laredo, Texas, hoping for news about the border being opened to receive them.

"We've been here 16 days and Mexican migration authorities have never bothered us," Yamira Gonzalez, who left Cuba with her sister and a minor, told EFE.

Gonzalez said that local authorities offer them medical care and ask whether there is anybody with chronic illnesses so they can see to their medication. "They make everything normal while we're resolving our status with the United States," she said.

Most of them left Cuba with tourist visas for Guyana and roundtrip tickets that cost them $259 (240 euros) each. They sold everything they owned to finance the trip, paying a series of "coyotes" (people traffickers) along the way.

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