Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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@CBSNews immigration and politics reporter. @RutgersU alum. ⚽️ ✍️ 📚 📧: [email protected]
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Joined January 2016
EXCLUSIVE — Trump officials are working on an asylum deal with El Salvador that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants from different countries there, sources tell @CBSNews. One plan would allow the U.S. to deport Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
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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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Tonight, President Biden said “Border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office.”. It sounds surprising. But it’s factually true. Illegal border crossings are at the lowest level since the fall of 2020. Our reporting:.
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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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NEWS — Unlawful crossings by migrants along the U.S. southern border dropped for the fifth consecutive month in July, plunging to the lowest level since the fall of 2020.
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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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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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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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BREAKING — President Trump moves to dismantle the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment, orders federal agencies to deny birthright citizenship to children of parents who are unauthorized immigrants OR temporary visa holders. Agencies are given 30 days to implement.
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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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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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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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A seismic shift in US immigration policy is expected once President-elect Trump takes office. He, his team have vowed to conduct the largest mass deportation in US history; end birthright citizenship; militarize the border; enact ideological screenings for legal immigrants; 1/.
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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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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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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.
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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NEWS — ICE deportations in fiscal year 2024 spiked to 271,000 under President Biden, the highest tally by the agency since FY 2014, during the Obama administration, according to a new report. That’s more than the Trump-era high of 267,000 ICE deportations in FY 2019.
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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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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).
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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"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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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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Colombian President Gustavo Petro announces he has blocked US deportations, saying the US "can't treat Colombian migrants like criminals.". US officials tell CBS News two military planes with migrant deportees were expected to land in Colombia today. Those plans were scrapped.
Los EEUU no pueden tratar como delincuentes a los migrantes Colombianos. Desautorizo la entrada de aviones norteamericanos con migrantes colombianos a nuestro territorio. EEUU debe establecer un protocolo de tratamiento digno a los migrantes antes que los recibamos nosotros.
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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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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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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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CBP confirms what we first reported: Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants at the southern border plunged to 56,408 in July, the lowest level since September 2020. It's the lowest level in illegal immigration at the southern border in nearly 4 years.
NEWS — Unlawful crossings by migrants along the U.S. southern border dropped for the fifth consecutive month in July, plunging to the lowest level since the fall of 2020.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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NEWS — The Biden administration will not be extending the legal status of tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who were allowed to fly to the U.S. under a sponsorship program, according to officials and internal documents.
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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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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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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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Major change: The Trump administration is empowering federal immigration officials to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants that former President Biden allowed into the U.S. and seek their deportation, according to an internal DHS memo obtained by CBS News.
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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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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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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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This action will surely trigger one of the most consequential legal battles on immigration in modern U.S. history.
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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:.
@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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The Biden administration had scheduled roughly 30,000 appointments via CBP One for migrants to enter the U.S. in the next 3 weeks. Those have now been cancelled.
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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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NEWS: A senior U.S. official tells CBS News that illegal crossings along the southern border plunged to roughly 2,000 yesterday. Daily U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants have not averaged that number since 2020, when the pandemic depressed migration.
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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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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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The Trump administration has revoked a Biden-era memo that prohibited ICE from arresting unauthorized immigrants at or near "sensitive locations," like schools, places of worship, healthcare sites, shelters and relief centers. Admin. says it "trusts" ICE to "use common sense."
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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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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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NEWS: President Biden's administration is making plans to announce one of the largest immigration relief programs in recent history. The plan would offer work permits and potentially a path to citizenship to unauthorized immigrants married to US citizens.
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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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Promising to extend Pres. Biden’s border crackdown, prosecute repeat crossers and curtail asylum, Vice President Harris yesterday solidified Democrats’ rejection of U.S. asylum law as currently written. It’s a shift that would’ve been unthinkable in 2020.
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EXCLUSIVE — U.S. border agents have been directed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally, without allowing them to request asylum, in accordance with President Trump's orders, according to internal documents and officials.
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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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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?.
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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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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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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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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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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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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NEWS: The Biden administration's is moving forward with plans to cement its sweeping asylum restrictions at the US-Mexico border, officials tell CBS News. The changes, planned for next week, would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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Some background on this: Supreme Court says Biden administration can remove razor wire that Texas installed along border.
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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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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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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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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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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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NEWS — The Trump administration is shutting down processing at offices in Latin America that the Biden administration set up to give migrants legal immigration options and dissuade them from crossing the southern border illegally, internal government documents show.
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BREAKING — President Trump cites extraordinary presidential powers to effectively suspend US asylum law, accusing migrants of staging an "invasion," endangering public health. He authorizes officials to "repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May is typically a month when migrant crossings at the U.S. border spike. But the remarkable lull this year continues. Border Patrol recorded ~3,000 apprehensions yesterday, compared to an average of 4,300 in April and 8,000 in December, per internal data obtained by CBS News.
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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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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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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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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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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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NEW tonight — A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration program that would allow unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens to get legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. citizenship.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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