Biden expands Title 42 expulsions while opening legal path for some migrants
Under the plan, some migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti would be allowed to enter the U.S. legally if they have financial sponsors.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez is an award-winning reporter covering immigration for CBS News, where his reporting is featured across multiple CBS News and Stations platforms, including the CBS News 24/7, CBSNews.com and CBS News Radio.
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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.
Under the plan, some migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti would be allowed to enter the U.S. legally if they have financial sponsors.
Unlike a Trump administration plan, the proposed rule would not dramatically increase application fees for immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens.
The dispute over ending the public health law, which gives border authorities the power to swiftly expel some migrants, has gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
ICE deportations in fiscal year 2022 were the second-lowest tally recorded, but represented a notable increase from 2021.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin on potential extremist-fueled violence connected to the expected end of Title 42 before the Supreme Court intervened on the policy.
For nearly three years, the Title 42 public health law has allowed the U.S. to quickly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico.
For the past two weeks, hundreds of migrants have been forced to sleep on the streets of El Paso because space in the city's shelters and churches has been depleted by a sharp increase in migrant arrivals.
A sharp increase in arrivals of migrants fleeing economic and political instability in Latin America has overwhelmed El Paso's shelter capacity, stranding some migrants on the street.
Title 42, a pandemic-era public health order first invoked by the Trump administration, has allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants without asylum screenings.
In a one-page order on Monday, Roberts agreed to place on hold a lower court ruling that declared Title 42 illegal, pending further action from the full court.
Title 42, a public health law first invoked by the Trump administration, allows U.S. border officials to expel migrants without allowing them to request asylum.
The immediate implications of the order were not clear, as any U.S. effort to return migrants to Mexico under a formal policy has to be greenlit by the Mexican government.
Negotiations in the Senate failed to gain enough traction to pass before the end of this session of Congress.
The State Department issued 493,000 visas to immigrants overseas who had applied to move to the U.S. permanently, a 73% jump from fiscal year 2021.
Title 42, which has allowed U.S. border officials to swiftly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants on public health grounds, is set to end on Dec. 21.