Desperate Cubans Are Trying To Get Fake Documents To Improve Their Lives In Mexico: 'Ghosts in a Legal Limbo'
- Posted on February 7, 2026
- By International Business Times
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Desperate Cubans Are Trying To Get Fake Documents To Improve Their Lives In Mexico: 'Ghosts in a Legal Limbo'

Long waits to regularize immigration status and restrictions on movement out of southern Mexico have fueled a black market in Mexican birth certificates and residency cards for Cuban migrants stranded in Chiapas, according to reporting by Noticias Telemundo.