---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6043"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6043"
heading: "Expulsion of criminals from Cuba"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6043"
units:
  - "Chapter 69A — Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (libertad)"
  - "Subchapter I — Strengthening International Sanctions Against the Castro Government"
---

# §6043. Expulsion of criminals from Cuba


The President shall instruct all [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Government officials who engage in official contacts with the [Cuban Government](/usc/22/6023.md?p=5-A) to raise on a regular basis the extradition of or rendering to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) all [persons](/usc/22/6023.md?p=11) residing in Cuba who are sought by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Department of Justice for crimes committed in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–114, title I, § 113, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 803.)