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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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Oct 3
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.
cbsnews.com/news/venezuela…
These Venezuelans have arrived under a Biden administration program, known as CHNV, that allows migrants from four countries to fly to the U.S. legally, if Americans sponsor them. It was designed to reduce illegal border crossings by offering them a legal way to come here.
They have been allowed to live, work in the U.S. for 2 years via immigration parole.

Some expected their parole to be extended, like was the case for Afghans and Ukrainians, but the administration had decided against it.

Venezuelans will start losing their parole this month.
Read 4 tweets
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Aug 1
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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U.S. Border Patrol agents made roughly 56,000 migrant apprehensions between official points of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, the lowest number since September 2020, when the agency reported nearly 55,000 apprehensions.
For context: In December, during a record-breaking spike in migration at the U.S.-Mexico border that overwhelmed agents in parts of Texas and Arizona, Border Patrol reported 250,000 apprehensions, or over four times July's tally.
Read 8 tweets
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Jul 27
NEWS — In an exclusive interview, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign chief signaled that Harris, if elected in November, would continue President Biden's asylum crackdown, which U.S. officials have credited for a steep drop in border crossings.
cbsnews.com/news/kamala-ha…
I asked Harris campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez if Harris would keep Biden’s ban on most asylum claims.

“At this point … the policies that are … having a real impact on ensuring that we have security and order at our border are policies that will continue,” she replied.
Chávez Rodríguez's comments are the first indication that U.S. border policy may not change significantly if Harris succeeds Mr. Biden as president, despite pressure from progressive activists angry with the Biden administration's pivot on asylum.
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May 8
NEWS — The Biden administration is planning to announce a new regulation tomorrow that is designed to allow immigration officials to deport migrants who are ineligible for U.S. asylum earlier in the process, three sources tell @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/immigrati…
It would instruct government asylum officers to apply certain barriers to asylum that are already part of U.S. law during so-called credible fear interviews. This is the first step in the years-long asylum process.
Migrants barred under U.S. law from asylum include those who may pose a danger to public safety or national security. The rule would allow officials to reject and deport migrants in these categories soon after they cross the border.
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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.
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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.
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