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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

11 Nov, 11 tweets, 3 min read

@CBSNews

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.
cbsnews.com/news/biden-imm…

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…

@MigrationPolicy

Doris Meissner, a former head of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a @MigrationPolicy fellow, said undoing Mr. Trump's immigration agenda will not be an easy endeavor, given bureaucratic requirements, COVID-19 and the volume of changes implemented.

@USCIS

Lynden Melmed, the top lawyer at @USCIS during the George W. Bush presidency, said the incoming Biden administration will need to be careful not to rush its policy reversals, as they could face the same court challenges that hampered Mr. Trump's immigration agenda.

Lastly: Immigration has arguably been the issue Trump officials—including Stephen Miller—have spent the most resources on, instituting 400 changes.

With his defeat, however, Mr. Trump's immigration legacy—built through executive actions—is now vulnerable.
cbsnews.com/news/biden-imm…

Something not noted in our story: Mr. Trump's pandemic-era restrictions on immigrant visas (family and employed-based) and temporary work visas (like H-1Bs) are set to expire on December 31.

If Mr. Trump extends them (seems likely), will Mr. Biden continue, alter or void them?

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

27 Oct

DHS No. 2 Ken Cuccinelli issued an official statement today denouncing U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee as an "activist" and accusing her of "preparing to order the separation" of migrant families in ICE detention.

I want to highlight a few points in a brief thread. 1/

Lawyers for detained migrant minors and the Justice Department filed a draft of a protocol earlier this month explaining that parents in ICE family detention can allow their children to be released to sponsors or continue to be in detention, together but indefinitely. 2/

Gee, who has ordered the government to comply with its binding obligation under the Flores settlement to seek the prompt release of migrant minors from detention, has yet to approve the protocol.

She ordered all parties yesterday to continue working to finalize the protocol. 3/

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

27 Oct

ICE agents are expanding "expedited removals" — deportations without court hearings — across the US.

This is the notice ICE will be providing immigrants placed in these proceedings. They will have to prove they have been continuously residing in the US prior to July 23, 2019.

ICE agents have been receiving training to enforce the new rules—which expand expedited removal beyond the previous 100-miles-from-the-border limit.

Below are training slides detailing how ICE expects to enforce the policy & how immigrants can contest their summary deportation:

Immigrants ICE seeks to summarily deport under this policy will have 72 hours to show—through financial, employment, school and personal documents—that they have been living in the US for 2 + years.

Mores training slides below, including on asylum screenings and release options.

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

21 Oct

@CBSNews

NEW — The Trump admin. is making more undocumented immigrants eligible to be quickly deported without a court hearing, instructing ICE agents to oversee the nation-wide expansion of a policy that had long been limited to border areas. @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/ice-depor…

The expansion of "expedited removals" comes as DHS has been touting a series of pre-election ICE operations in cities across the US, from California to New York, that have adopted "sanctuary" policies that limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal deportation agents.

Previously, expedited removals could only be used within 100 miles of US land borders.

ICE agents can now place undocumented immigrants arrested anywhere in the US in expedited removals if they fail to demonstrate they have lived in the country for 2 years or longer.

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

5 Oct

New: The 9th Circuit has denied the Trump admin.'s request to suspend an order by US Judge Dolly Gee that requires ICE / DHS to stop detaining migrant children it seeks to expel from the southern border in hotels (except for 72-hour stays).

@CBSNews

The stay the 9th Circuit placed on Gee's order expires tomorrow and DHS will be barred from overseeing a large-scale border hotel detention system.

However, @CBSNews reported Friday that ICE quietly stopped holding migrant children in hotels 3 weeks ago:
cbsnews.com/news/u-s-stops…

The 9th Circuit today rejected the Trump admin. argument that children who DHS seeks to summarily expel under a COVID public health order are in the legal custody of the CDC, noting that DHS has all the decision-making authority over them (it detains + expels them).

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

2 Oct

@CBSNews

ICE quietly stopped holding migrant children in border hotels on Sept. 11.

But CBP says unaccompanied minors and families with children can still be expelled from the US, without an opportunity to seek asylum, under COVID restrictions. @CBSNews. 1/
cbsnews.com/news/u-s-stops…

On Sept. 4, a federal judge ordered ICE to stop detaining migrant children in hotels, barring 72-hour stays.

That order, however, is not in effect due to a stay the 9th Circuit keeps extending.

DHS seemed to be complying with an order is not bound to (not yet at least). 2/

The number of unaccompanied children transferred to the US refugee agency—a requirement under anti-trafficking law—has increased in the past weeks.

Between April and July, the refugee agency received 330 children, even as CBP recorded 5,900 + arrests of unaccompanied minors. 3/

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

29 Sep

@CBSNews

The Trump-Biden contest in 35 days is a juncture for US immigration policy, pitting drastically different visions on green card policy, asylum, refugees, ICE detention and deportations and border restrictions against each other. 1/

Our story:
cbsnews.com/news/trump-bid… via @CBSNews

@CBSNews

Former and current senior DHS officials said a Biden admin. could face an arduous and long road in reversing Pres. Trump's immigration changes.

"It's not like someone shows up on day one and can stop doing regulation A, B or C," DHS No. 2 Ken Cuccinelli told @CBSNews. 2/

If victorious, Biden will be under pressure to not just to undo Trump’s changes, but to also move away from some Obama-era policies, particularly on deportation and detention.

"I always say that Trump is abusing the ICE deportation machine that Obama built” one activist said. 3/

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