2 migrants found dead inside Texas train car in suspected smuggling operation
A U.S. official said all indications suggest the victims were migrants being smuggled into the country illegally.
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Before joining CBS News, Montoya-Galvez spent over two years as an investigative unit producer and assignment desk editor at Telemundo's television station in New York City. His work at Telemundo earned three New York Emmy Awards.
Earlier, he was the founding editor of After the Final Whistle, an online bilingual publication featuring stories that highlight soccer's role in contemporary society.
He was born in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, and raised in northern New Jersey.
He earned a bachelor's degree in media and journalism studies/Spanish from Rutgers University.
A U.S. official said all indications suggest the victims were migrants being smuggled into the country illegally.
The agreement will allow both countries to turn away asylum-seekers who crossed the U.S.-Canada border without legal permission.
U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded roughly 130,000 apprehensions of migrants in February, a 40% decrease from December.
The move will help more than 20,000 Ukrainians who sought entry along the U.S. southern border following the Russian invasion.
The proposal, sources said, is one of several policy options being considered at a high level by senior White House and Department of Homeland Security officials.
The White House's top lawyer said a sweeping asylum restriction was at high risk of being declared illegal in court.
The Department of Labor said it had recorded a 70% increase in the number of children illegally employed by companies over the past five years.
Americans across nearly 10,000 zip codes in all 50 states have applied to sponsor Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion of their homeland.
The Biden administration said the number of migrants entering the U.S. illegally will spike unless the asylum restrictions are implemented.
The Title 42 policy, which allows the U.S. to expel migrants on public health grounds, is set to end on May 11, once the COVID-19 national emergency lapses.
Just 4,775 of the 77,000 Afghans resettled in the U.S. under a special legal process have secured permanent legal status for themselves and their families.
The Temporary Protected Status program allows immigrants from crisis-stricken countries to live and work in the U.S. on a temporary basis.
The Biden administration has reunited more than 600 children who were separated from their parents along the U.S.-Mexico border, but many families face legal obstacles.
President Biden is expected to argue his administration is disrupting the trafficking of fentanyl, including by increasing scanning technology at official border crossings.
GOP lawmakers have incorrectly blamed the spike in fentanyl overdoses on migrants, whom they blame for bringing the drugs across the border.