Cuban Migration Numbers
Legal Status, Deportations, and Removal Flights to Cuba
Cubans in the US with I-220A: 500,000+
Cubans in the US on CHNV Parole: 110,970
Cubans deported to Africa: 4 Cubans in 2025
Cubans deported across the U.S.-Mexico land border: 3,753 Cubans between January 20 and December 31, 2025
Deportation Flights to Cuba & Immigration Detainees at Guantánamo Bay By Month
FEBRUARY 2026
Updated March 17, 2026
Number of deportation flights to Cuba: 2
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 15
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 286 Cubans were deported to the island in February across two flights:
February 9: 170 deportees (including more than 50 Cubans who were previously detained at Guantánamo Bay)
February 19: 116 deportees
*On February 2, an ICE Air flight with more than 50 Cuban nationals—who were transferred from U.S. detention centers to Guantánamo Bay between December 2025 and January 2026—returned to the US from Guantánamo Bay. On February 9, they were removed to Cuba on a deportation flight. (Source: The New York Times)
JANUARY 2026
Last updated: February 24, 2026
Number of deportation flights to Cuba: 0
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 73
Number of Cubans deported: No deportation flight was reported for the month of January.
Updated January 12, 2026
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 54
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 128 Cubans were deported to the island in December.
NOVEMBER 2025
Updated December 17, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 2
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 22
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 371 Cubans were deported to the island in November across two flights:
OCTOBER 2025
Updated November 7, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 0
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 136 Cubans were deported to the island in October.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Updated November 3, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 18
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 136 Cubans were deported to the island in September.
AUGUST 2025
Last updated: September 20, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 15
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported a deportation flight arrived without specifying a number; however, state journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso reported that 161 Cubans were deported to the island in August.
JULY 2025
Updated August 4, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 41
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 118 Cubans were deported to the island in July.
JUNE 2025
Updated July 7, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 54
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 89 Cubans were deported to the island in June.
MAY 2025
Last updated: June 1, 2025
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: Roughly 70
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 130 Cubans were deported to the island in May.
APRIL 2025
Last updated: Feb 10, 2026
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 45
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 82 Cubans were deported to the island in April.
MARCH 2025
Last updated: Feb 10, 2026
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 0
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 60 Cubans were deported to the island in March.
FEBRUARY 2025
Last updated: Feb 10, 2026
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 177
Number of Cubans deported: Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior reported that 104 Cubans were deported to the island in February.
JANUARY 2025
Last updated: Feb 10, 2026
Number of deportations flights to Cuba: 1 per month
Number of immigration detainees at Guantánamo Naval Base: 15
Number of Cubans deported: The number of individuals on the deportation flight in January was not publicly reported.
FY2024
Number of Cubans deported: 657
FY2023
Number of Cubans deported: 371
FY2022
Number of Cubans deported: 48
FY2021
Number of Cubans deported: 138
FY2020
Number of Cubans deported: 253
FY2019
Number of Cubans deported: 134
FY2018
Number of Cubans deported: 146
FY2017
Number of Cubans deported: 208
FY2016
Number of Cubans deported: 106
FY2015
Number of Cubans deported: 56
FY2014
Number of Cubans deported: 64
FY2013
Number of Cubans deported: 79
FY2012
Number of Cubans deported: 90