Mexico is sending illegal Cuban migrants home for the first time under a new accord aimed at cutting off an increasingly violent human-trafficking route to the United States, an official said Thursday.
Before Mexico signed the agreement with Cuba in October, authorities rarely sent migrants back to the communist island.
The Cubans were being deported from the resort city of Cancun, said Luis Alberto Molina, an immigration official in Quintana Roo state, where Cancun is located.
Molina said he could not give further details.
An Associated Press photographer in Cancun saw about 60 immigrants being loaded on two buses early Thursday, and …
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