Security is related to survival. Moreover, when an issue represents an existential threat that needs immediate measures and special treatment, the stakeholder must apply a sense of urgency. Moreover, by the time this crisis occurs, a new immigrant wave from Haiti and Cuban is happening; additionally, the political turmoil in both Caribbean countries could represent an existential threat to U.S. security. Besides that, anguished families, children, and single adults desperate in the face of the humanitarian crisis due to the lack of Covid-19 vaccines decide to flee to the United States as immigrants. Therefore, Haiti and Cuba's factual political issue today represents an unusual and extraordinary threat to the U.S. national security and foreign policy of the United States. In consequence, the Biden administration must implement efficient policies to alleviate this problematic situation.
Even though the Biden administration supports the people of both countries, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned citizens of Cuba and Haiti against trying to flee to the United States amid unrest in those nations. Moreover, they would be repatriated or referred to other countries for resettlement.
On the one hand, as measures to contain the possible migrations wage, U.S. officials had spared from deportation thousands of Haitians already in the United States before last week's assassination of President Jovenel Moïse amplified the turmoil there. The following actions ordered by the U.S. government will deploy the U.S. Coast Guard forces to impede that immigrant boats from Cuba attempting migration by sea. On the other hand, a group that advocates for immigrants criticized the U.S. actions, alleging that migrants have the legal right to seek asylum.
In the following days, we will see what measures have to take the U.S. administrations. Moreover, the Cuban government accused the United States of being the mastermind and financing the massive protests in Cuba this week. Additionally, the island's foreign minister issued a veiled threat that U.S. actions could trigger a new exodus of Cubans to the United States.
The questions to ask is: Is the Cuban dictatorship looking for millions of other Cubans to leave as an escape valve for the island's crisis? How did it happen in Venezuela and before in Cuba itself? It seems like the regime itself is installing the idea. Are we in the presence of a new form of tit-for-tat? We will see.
