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@camiloreports
Jul 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
NEW: "I want to continue living": Some immigrants in ICE custody feel particularly vulnerable to the spreading coronavirus

Read and watch their accounts below — and don't miss "Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis" hosted by @MariaESalinas at 9 PM ET on @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
Griselda Melendez, 54, a cancer survivor with underlying health issues, would be eligible for release under a court order.

But ICE says her conviction of harboring undocumented immigrants—for which she served a sentence—makes her ineligible for release.
cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
In an interview with @CBSNews, Henry Lucero, the ICE official who oversees immigration detention and deportations, defended the agency's practices during the pandemic.

"Make no mistake, keeping people safe in our custody is not something we take lightly."
cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
"Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis" also includes other timely stories by my intrepid colleagues — @MariaESalinas, @cbsmireya, @adrianasdiaz, @BojorquezCBS, @edokeefe, @OmarVillafranca — about the coronavirus' impact on America's Latinos.

#originalreporting
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Mar 10
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:
2/ If you only listen to one side, everyone coming to the U.S. southern border is a bad person, a criminal or someone gaming the system.

If you only listen to the other side, everyone coming to the border is an asylum-seeker fleeing imminent harm.

Both narratives are false.
3/ If you only listen to one side, there's no migrant crisis, despite an unprecedented influx and its humanitarian, operational and security implications.

If you listen to the other side, there's an "invasion." But there's no military assault. Border towns are not under attack.
Read 7 tweets
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Feb 12
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.
cbsnews.com/news/immigrati…
Yes, you read that right. Migrants have used the "CBP One" app tens of millions of times to apply for a coveted appointment to be processed by U.S. authorities at an official border crossing.

So far, nearly 450,000 migrants have been allowed into the U.S. under the process.
The number of requests does not represent unique individuals, since it includes repeated attempts by the same people. Nonetheless, the figure illustrates the extraordinarily high demand among migrants to come to the U.S. and the desperation that leads many to try again and again.
Read 6 tweets
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Jan 15
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."

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DHS is giving Texas until the end of the day on Wednesday to say it "will cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around the Shelby Park area and remove all barriers to access to the U.S.-Mexico border."

Otherwise, DHS will refer the matter to DOJ.
Story: The Biden administration demanded that Texas officials stop preventing Border Patrol agents from entering a section of the U.S. southern border commandeered by state National Guard soldiers last week, calling the actions "clearly unconstitutional.”
cbsnews.com/news/eagle-pas…
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Dec 12, 2023
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.
cbsnews.com/news/immigrati…
In recent days, the Biden administration has intensified its engagement with lawmakers negotiating a border-Ukraine deal. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas started engaging with negotiators in the Senate this week.

He's currently on Capitol Hill.
This is what I have been told the White House would be willing to support:

- A Title 42-like authority to summarily expel migrants, pause US asylum law, without a public health justification

- A nation-wide expansion of expedited removal

- Mandatory detention for new arrivals
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Sep 20, 2023
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.
cbsnews.com/news/venezuela…
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding, or redesignating, the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelan migrants, allowing more recent arrivals to apply for the deportation protections and work permits offered by the policy, the sources said.
The move is a victory for congressional Democrats and leaders in large cities like New York, who for months have been pressuring the federal government to grant migrants in their communities legal status so they can work legally more quickly and not rely on local services
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May 10, 2023
A thread on our reporting: The Biden administration is planning to replace Title 42 with a policy that is, in many ways, tougher — and I think that has been overlooked.

This rule will disqualify most non-Mexican migrants from asylum if they enter the U.S. without permission. 1/
The regulation will subject migrants to swift, formal deportations to their home country or Mexico, a five year banishment from the U.S. and potential criminal prosecution if they try to re-enter. Title 42 did not impose these immigration or criminal consequences on migrants. 2/
While Title 42 allowed the U.S. to cite public health concerns to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants without hearing their asylum claims, it encouraged some migrants who were expelled to Mexico without any of the aforementioned consequences to make repeat border crossings 3/
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