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@CBSNews immigration and politics reporter. @RutgersU alum. Still dreaming of a ⚽️ career. 📧: camilo @cbsnews .com

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 months
One of the reasons immigration is such an intractable issue in the US is because the discourse on it is riddled with misleading / false narratives that lack nuance and extreme positions. A thread about what I've been thinking about lately as immigration becomes a top 2024 issue:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING — US Judge Nicholas Garaufis has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore DACA, instructing DHS to open the Obama-era program to new applicants for the first time since 2017. Follow @CBSNews for more.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
NEW — President-elect Biden is set to start reversing Pres. Trump's immigration legacy. The Biden team is planning to fully restore DACA, enact a 100-day freeze on deportations, limit ICE arrests, overturn green card restrictions and much more. @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
BREAKING — U.S. Judge Emmet Sullivan voids the Title 42 order that has allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants, finding it "arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act"
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
The Biden administration today announced it is formalizing a new process to allow certain immigrants who served in the U.S. military and were later deported to return to the country legally.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 months
Texas National Guard soldiers are setting up more razor wire here in Eagle Pass to repel illegal crossings. Yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration to remove this wire but Texas is still blocking Border Patrol from processing migrants in this area.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
NEW — The U.S. is rejecting over 90% of Afghans who were not evacuated last year and who are now seeking to enter the country on humanitarian grounds, government data show. They include family members of translators who helped the U.S. fight the Taliban.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
A federal judge in NY found that DHS head Chad Wolf "was not lawfully serving" as acting sec. when he limited DACA protections & closed the program to new applicants. The judge also certified a class of immigrants who are or could be eligible for DACA under its 2012 guidelines.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitian and Cuban migrants and asylum-seekers who try to come to the U.S. by boat will not be allowed to enter the country. Even if asylum-seekers establish fear of persecution, they will be resettled in third countries, Mayorkas said.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING — A "staggering number" of migrant children held at a Border Patrol facility face overcrowded conditions, lawyers who interviewed them tell CBS News. Children reported sleeping on the floor; limited showers; and not seeing the sun in days.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
Temperatures have dropped to 19 °F here in El Paso, where some migrants continue to be stranded on the street. The city has even parked a bus here just so that those who are awake can get warm. Other migrants, including families, continue sleeping under blankets.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 months
This deal brokered by the White House would be one of the toughest border and immigration laws in modern history and would not legalize any of the estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US, an element of comprehensive immigration reform long championed by Democrats.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 months
BREAKING -- Three senators release their immigration agreement with the White House that would give the president far-reaching powers to clamp down on border crossings, including the authority to partially suspend asylum law and quickly deport migrants.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
The Biden team is planning to ramp up refugee admissions, which Mr. Trump slashed to 15,000 — a record low. The incoming Biden admin. plans to set a 125,000-person cap. Mr. Biden has also vowed to grant certain Venezuelans in the U.S. TPS to shield them from deportation.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 months
This is an extraordinary situation: A state is denying federal law enforcement access to a section of an international boundary, physically preventing Border Patrol agents from processing migrants in a public park near the Rio Grande (as they are required to).
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 months
BREAKING — Texas state officials have abruptly blocked federal U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering a park in Eagle Pass where they first encounter migrants. Federal official: "They are denying entry to Border Patrol agents to conduct our duties.”
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
5 years
"If my family did not have access to food stamps, I would've dropped out of high school and I don't know where I would be today — but I would probably not be a United States senator," @SenDuckworth told @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
EXCLUSIVE — The Biden administration has finalized a rule to transform the DACA policy for more than 600,000 immigrant “Dreamers” into a federal regulation in an attempt to protect the program from legal challenges. More on @CBSNews :
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING -- A federal judge in Texas has ordered the Biden administration to suspend the DACA program for "Dreamers." finding it illegal. Agreeing to a request by Texas, Judge Andrew Hanen is ordering the government to stop approving new DACA requests. Follow @CBSNews for more.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
JUST IN -- U.S. Judge Kathleen Cardone temporarily blocks Texas Governor Greg Abbott's executive order that instructed state law enforcement to stop vehicles suspected of transporting migrants released from federal immigration custody.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
Rep. @AOC warned of a "humanitarian crisis" unless ICE oversees a large-scale release of detainees. "A decision to do nothing is a decision to do harm." "It is our responsibility, right now, to make sure that we release as many of these people as humanly possible.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
If Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas does not resign, the incoming Republican-led House will investigate whether to launch an impeachment inquiry against him, presumptive future House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) announces during a border visit.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
8 months
BREAKING — The Biden administration will be offering more than 400,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. legal status and work permits through an expansion of the TPS program following demands from New York and other cities, three sources tell @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Conditions in the largest Border Patrol facility for migrant children have changed dramatically. In March, the Donna facility was severely overcrowded, holding 3,700 lone children. When we were allowed inside yesterday, Donna was holding 330 lone minors.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
ICYMI — Boys trying to escape. Girls having panic attacks. Staff banning pencils, toothbrushes out of fear teens could harm themselves. These are some of the details in our report on the Ft. Bliss tent camp, the largest US site holding migrant children.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is using his humanitarian parole authority to allow at-risk Afghans without visas to enter the U.S., including those with *pending* Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applications, a senior Biden administration told reporters during a call today.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 months
BREAKING — Texas state officials have abruptly blocked federal U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering a park in Eagle Pass where they first encounter migrants. Federal official: "They are denying entry to Border Patrol agents to conduct our duties.”
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
In recent days we've been covering the record-high number of unaccompanied migrant children stuck in Border Patrol custody; the overcrowding they are facing; and the scramble to find shelter beds. I wanted to share some reporting on the policy some see as the solution. A thread:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
STORY: Judge orders restoration of DACA, opening immigration program to new applicants An estimated one million undocumented immigrant teens and young adults who qualify for DACA on paper could soon apply in the wake of today's order.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
5 months
NEWS — The Biden administration has indicated to Congress that it's open to a new Title 42-like border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as an expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to get GOP to back Ukraine aid.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
New — US border officials have expelled at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children without a court hearing or asylum interview since a federal judge ordered them to stop the practice in November, the Trump admin. conceded over the weekend.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
JUST IN — Citing Omicron, the Biden administration has decided, after a new review, to maintain the Trump-era Title 42 border policy that authorizes the rapid expulsion of migrants and asylum-seekers, a CDC spokesperson tells @cbsnews tonight.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
JUST IN: A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore the Obama-era DACA program to the way it operated before DHS tried to end it in 2017. @USCIS has yet to say whether it will accept initial DACA applications following the SCOTUS ruling.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Wolf did not have the authority to issue the July memo restricting DACA. He directed parties to "advise of any forthcoming motions for relief in light of the court's decision." Lawyers for DACA recipients are working on it:
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Karen Tumlin
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@DHS_Wolf The court directed the parties to immediately contact the court to "schedule a conference to advise on any forthcoming motions for relief in light of the court's decision." So, we have some work to do this weekend. Good work. Or what John Lewis called good, necessary trouble. 5/
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING — A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin. to stop expelling unaccompanied migrant children without allowing them to seek US humanitarian refuge. Thousands of migrant minors have been expelled without hearings or asylum interviews. @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
NEW — Through an executive order signed today, President Biden has directed the DHS secretary to "take all actions he deems appropriate" to "preserve and fortify" the Obama-era DACA program for so-called "Dreamers." Former President Trump unsuccessfully tried to end DACA
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
The @ACLU today on family separations: "We must demand that the Biden administration reunite the separated families in the (U.S.), but we cannot stop there. These families deserve citizenship, resources, care, and a commitment that family separation will never happen again"
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
BREAKING — The Senate parliamentarian ruled against Democrats’ plan to offer work permits to undocumented immigrants, rejecting yet again another Democratic effort to pass an immigration program without Republican votes, sources familiar with the guidance tell CBS News.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 months
President Biden has issued an order protecting Palestinian immigrants in the US from deportation, citing the war in Gaza. He's using an obscure presidential program known as Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), which also offers beneficiaries work permits.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 months
A woman and two children drowned near an area where Texas has blocked Border Patrol from processing migrants. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Texas prevented Border Patrol from trying to rescue them. A CBP official tells me Cuellar’s account is accurate.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
NEW — Judge orders ICE to release migrant children held with their families, citing coronavirus "The (family detention facilities) are on 'fire' and there is no more time for half measures," US Judge Dolly Gee wrote in her order. via @CBSNews
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
5 years
Newsrooms make mistakes all the time and Fox News issued a correction. But this highlights an underlying problem in the news business. Did a Latino write that chyron? I would be surprised if that was the case. How about someone with a basic understating of geography?
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This is an actual banner from "Fox & Friends Weekend." 6:03am today. I double checked because I didn't believe it at first. Hat tip @BadFoxGraphics
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Judge Hanen is *not* ordering the Biden administration to cancel the work permits and deportation protections for the 616,000 immigrants enrolled in DACA. Hanen is staying (suspending) his order in that respect. But he is barring DHS from granting DACA to new applicants.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
The @ACLU 's Kate Huddleston: “This lawsuit should not be allowed to proceed. Paxton sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election by attempting to baselessly suppress votes; now he is attempting to force the Biden admin. to follow Trump's xenophobic policies."
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
JUST IN — Attorney General Merrick Garland is urging Texas Governor Greg Abbott to immediately revoke an order that instructs state authorities to stop vehicles suspected of carrying migrants released from Border Patrol custody, arguing that such a directive is illegal.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
BREAKING — U.S. Judge Robert Summerhays grants a preliminary injunction to block the Biden administration from ending the mass expulsions of migrants under the Title 42 pandemic-era rule. The CDC had planned to stop authorizing Title 42 on Monday, May 23.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
New — The @ACLU has filed an amicus brief in support of the Biden administration's ability to implement its 100-day moratorium on some deportations. The ACLU says Texas, which is challenging the moratorium, has failed to show it will be harmed by the pause in deportations.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
New tonight: The U.S. has now expelled 2,324 Haitians on 21 deportation flights to Haiti as part of the mass expulsion operation that started Sunday, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security data. 4 flights landed in Haiti today with 375 deportees on board.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING — The number of unaccompanied migrant children in US custody has surpassed 15,000, per data reviewed by @CBSNews . 5,000 are stranded in Border Patrol facilities, where the average detention time has increased to 136 hours, beyond the 3-day limit.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Hopefully these stories, which did not receive the same attention as ones about minors in border custody, offer some insight into what some see as the alternative to sheltering unaccompanied migrant children and allowing them seek US refuge — both obligations under US law. end/
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
Good morning from El Paso, where migrants continue to stranded on the street because of the depleted shelter space. Officials are converting a convention center and vacant middle schools into shelters to try to get migrants off the street before temperatures drop to the low 20s.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
There are undocumented immigrant teens and young adults across the US who are eligible for DACA on paper and meet the 2012 requirements, but have been locked out of the program, which offers protections from deportation. Here are some of their stories:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Refugee advocates rebuked Mayorkas' remarks. @KennjiKizuka : "The U.S. government shouldn't be using this system of off-shore processing to evade our refugee protection laws. They should allow people to land in the United States and go through their full asylum proceedings."
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
This is a major ruling with huge implications. It prevents the U.S. from expelling any migrant under Title 42, a public health authority first invoked by the Trump administration. Judge Sullivan refused to suspend the ruling pending an appeal. More to come ... @CBSNews
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
1 year
Lee Gelernt, the @ACLU lawyer who filed the lawsuit in this case, tells me, "This ruling is of enormous significance for asylum-seekers and will hopefully put an end to the misuse of public health laws to block desperate people from seeking protection."
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
Other changes Biden’s team intends to make: - Scrap the public charge rules for green cards / visas. - End “travel ban” restrictions on 13 countries—most of which are African or majority Muslim. - Review Trump’s efforts to end TPS deportation protections for 300K immigrants.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
10 months
The Biden administration has launched an unprecedented expansion of legal immigration, using a law from 1952 to allow more than 500,000 migrants and refugees to enter the U.S. legally and access government work permits. In case you missed our reporting amid all the news.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
10 months
NEWS — The Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants through the parole authority, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history, unpublished government data obtained by CBS News show.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
Mr. Biden will look to implement the 100-day deportations moratorium while his administration issues guidance narrowing who can be arrested and deported by ICE. A source familiar with Mr. Biden's plans said new guidance would be designed to curb so-called "collateral arrests.”
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
NEW: Nine migrant parents who were deported from the U.S. after being separated from their children in 2017 and 2018 set foot on American soil once again late Wednesday night in a historic, court-mandated return. @CBSNews was there:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
STORY — Judge orders U.S. to close DACA program to new applicants, blocking tens of thousands of immigrant teenagers and young adults from the Obama-era protections
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
JUST IN: A federal judge in California has ordered ICE to make "custody determinations" — consider releasing — *all* immigrants over 55, those who are pregnant and detainees who suffer from chronic health conditions, for as long as coronavirus poses a "substantial threat of harm"
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
I've been told that the incoming Biden admin will also direct the CDC to review the pandemic policy of expelling migrants without court hearings. Tens of thousands of migrants — including 8,800 unaccompanied children — have been expelled under the policy:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
NEW — The U.S. has received more than 100,000 Ukrainians since the Russian invasion, fulfilling President Biden's pledge of providing a temporary safe haven to those displaced as part of the largest refugee exodus since World War II, government data show.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
NEW — Another federal court has found that Pres. Trump's top DHS official Chad Wolf was unlawfully appointed, and that he did not have the authority to restrict DACA. 1.1 million immigrant teens and young adults may be eligible to request DACA. @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
The U.S. is modifying the Special Immigrant Visa process for Afghans, removing one application step so that applicants go through one government agency starting on July 20, senior officials told reporters today, saying the change could reduce processing times by "about a month."
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
The incoming Biden admin. will also look at reinstating an Obama-era program that allowed at-risk children in Central America to request refugee or parole status and reunite with their parents in the US, per a source familiar with the plans. Mr. Trump ended that program in 2017.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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NEWS — Migrants in Mexico have made over 64.3 million requests to enter the U.S. using a smartphone app that the Biden administration has tried to establish as the main gateway to the American asylum system, internal documents obtained by CBS News show.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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JUST IN — CDC Director Rochelle Walensky issues a new order continuing the Title 42 border policy, which allows U.S. officials to expel migrants and asylum-seekers without court hearings. This new order is in place indefinitely but is supposed to be reviewed every 60 days.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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STORY: People fleeing Cuba and Haiti by boat will not be allowed to enter the U.S., even if they demonstrate fear of being persecuted or tortured in their home countries, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned today.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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BREAKING — US Judge Dolly Gee said she will order the Trump admin. to end the practice of detaining migrant children in hotels while arrangements are made for them to be expelled from the US under an unprecedented pandemic-era border restriction. @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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The Biden administration will be allowing asylum-seekers who were ordered deported for not attending their court hearings under the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program to enter the U.S. and re-start their proceedings here, per a notice sent to Congress and obtained by CBS News.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) says he's exploring using Joint Base Cape Cod to house migrants transported by Republican officials in other states: "The Commonwealth has many resources for assisting individuals that arrive in Massachusetts with varying immigration statuses"
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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BREAKING — 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children have been expelled from the southern border and denied US refuge during the pandemic under an emergency policy, the Trump admin. told a federal court today. @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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JUST IN — Texas rejects the Biden administration’s demand for the state National Guard to grant Border Patrol full access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, saying it will not allow federal officials to turn it into an “unlawful port of entry” “Your request is hereby denied”
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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The number of unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol holding facilities fell below 600 yesterday, after reaching nearly 5,800 in late March. There are still nearly 21,000 unaccompanied children in HHS care; though the department has been increasing its release rate.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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In a statement to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security says Texas officials "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from entering this area in Eagle Pass to try to rescue these migrants who drowned, calling the policies of Governor Greg Abbott "inhumane” and “cruel.”
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING — Pres. Biden and VP Kamala Harris have instructed HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to conduct a "thorough investigation" on conditions at the Fort Bliss tent camp housing 1,500 migrant children, per @SymoneSanders46 . Our reporting on the tent camp:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
Mr. Biden intends to end the Remain-in-Mexico border policy. But it remains unclear whether asylum-seekers will be allowed in. A source familiar with Mr. Biden’s plans said the incoming admin. will void deals that allow the US to re-route asylum-seekers to Central America.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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JUST IN — The Biden administration is ending the Trump-era Title 42 border deportation policy *as it pertains to unaccompanied children* in response to a court ruling​ that could've forced officials to expel those minors.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
The Trump admin. invoked a 19th century public health authority to suspend the safeguards Congress created to protect migrant children from trafficking and persecution. 10-year-old Jesús was expelled to Honduras alone while his mother was in Mexico. 4/
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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Invoking a quote from The Grapes of Wrath, @chefjoseandres said his nonprofit will continue to assist communities in need — including federal workers. "Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, we will be there," he told @DavidBegnaud and I.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
2 years
91 migrants, including 17 children, released from federal US border custody arrived in New York City this morning on 2 buses from Texas. The Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have collectively transported more than 11,000 migrants to Washington, DC, New York and Chicago.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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JUST IN — U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has set aside his August 2021 ruling that forced the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico border policy. The administration can now legally terminate the policy (once again) due to a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
5 months
It's official: Starting today, the U.S. government is prohibited for the next 8 years from separating migrant children from their families to prosecute the parents for illegal entry. A judge has approved a court settlement that includes this ban on most border separations.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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Federal judge Dana Sabraw approved a settlement barring U.S. border officials from reviving the family separation policy for 8 years. Sabraw, a Bush appointee, called the Trump-era policy "one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country."
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
4 years
These people are tough ... I guess I'm buying a bigger Frida print.
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Hint of plant. 3 small pieces of art. Get bigger Frida. Tough spot. 6/10 @camiloreports
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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It's important to note that while the deportation moratorium will be suspended for 14 days, today's order does not block the Biden admin. from enforcing the rest of the provisions of last week's DHS memo, which include new guidelines for ICE arrests set to take effect Monday.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
5 years
El Salvador’s president says the US has agreed to extend TPS protections for Salvadorans in the US for one year. This is a big win for Bukele, who made this a priority. It’s also an important concession by the Trump administration, which has been trying to end most TPS programs.
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Nayib Bukele
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Decían que era imposible. Que el Gobierno Salvadoreño no podía hacer nada. Pero nosotros sabíamos que nuestros aliados no nos dejarían solos. No quisimos compartirlo antes porque podíamos entorpecer las conversaciones. Pero después de todo, gracias a Dios, el TPS se logró.
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NEW — The Biden administration is set to announce tomorrow a pilot program that will allow groups of private American citizens to financially sponsor the resettlement of refugees fleeing war and violence across the world, sources tell @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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"If individuals make, establish a well-founded fear of persecution or torture, they are referred to third countries for resettlement. They will not enter the United States," Mayorkas said.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
NEW — Pres-elect Biden is planning to follow through on pledges to implement a 100-day freeze on ICE deportations & gradually end the Remain-in-Mexico / safe 3rd country asylum policies. A transition official just confirmed what @CBSNews reported in Nov:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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NEW — ICE faces intensifying pressure to release immigrants to avert a potentially deadly coronavirus outbreak inside the world's largest immigration detention system. "It's going to spread like wildfire," former ICE chief John Sandweg told @CBSNews .
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding that Texas state officials stop blocking Border Patrol agents from a public park in Eagle Pass, threatening legal action and calling the state's move to seize control of the area "clearly unconstitutional." Full letter:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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NEWS — Approximately 50,000 migrants from crisis-stricken Venezuela crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully last month, a record and once-unthinkable number, according to preliminary Department of Homeland Security statistics obtained by CBS News.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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New — The drastic border and asylum restrictions considered by President Biden reflect a seismic political shift on immigration. It's a shift that would've been unthinkable 3 years ago, when Biden promised to "restore" the asylum system. W/ @edokeefe :
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
BREAKING -- Judge Emmett Sullivan has ordered the Biden administration to stop using the Title 42 public health law to expel migrant families with children without allowing them to seek U.S. asylum. Sullivan is pausing his order for 14 days.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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This is major victory for the Trump administration, which says the rule is designed to promote "self-sufficiency" among immigrants. But immigrant advocates say it institutes a “wealth test” designed to limit the immigration of poor people from developing, non-white countries.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
3 years
Judge Hanen, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President George W. Bush, has given @DHSgov three days to post a notice on its websites saying that DACA was found to be illegal and that the government is prohibited from approving first-time DACA requests.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden administration will continue to expel most migrants and asylum-seekers from the US-Mexico border under a Trump-era pandemic policy. “The vast majority of people will be turned away," she said.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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15-year-old Marjory came to the U.S. border in November fleeing sexual abuse and hoping to reunite with her father in Pennsylvania. But she was not allowed to seek U.S. protection and was expelled to Guatemala. 6/
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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Some argue that the Biden admin. should expel unaccompanied migrant children under a Trump-era pandemic policy authorized by the CDC that is currently being used to expel most migrant adults and some families. Three federal judges have said that practice is likely illegal. 2/
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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The U.S. asylum system is collapsing. Fewer than 600 judges are reviewing 2 million court cases—including 750,000 asylum requests. Migrants are waiting 4.2 years for a hearing. An unknown number of migrants have not even received a court date. My latest:
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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The border standoff between Texas and the Biden administration continues. Here in Eagle Pass, the Texas National Guard has not only assembled razor wire near the river to repel migrants; it has also set up wire to seal off this area that Border Patrol used to process migrants.
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