17-year-old Ukrainian girl remains in U.S. border custody
Thousands of Ukrainians have been traveling to Mexico to seek asylum along the U.S. southern border since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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.
Montoya-Galvez is also part of CBS News' team of 2024 political campaign reporters.
Montoya-Galvez joined CBS News in 2018 and has reported hundreds of articles on immigration, the U.S. immigration policy, the contentious debate on the topic, and connected issues. He's landed exclusive stories and developed in-depth reports on the impact of significant policy changes. He's also extensively reported on the people affected by a complex immigration system.
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.
Thousands of Ukrainians have been traveling to Mexico to seek asylum along the U.S. southern border since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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The CDC director cited improving pandemic conditions, including increased vaccination rates in the U.S. and migrants' home countries.
U.S. immigration officials have carried out over 1.7 million expulsions of migrants in the past two years under the policy.
The Biden administration is building migrant holding facilities, soliciting contracts for transportation services and deploying additional immigration agents.
The measures announced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) include allowing more applicants to pay extra fees to have their applications processed more quickly.
The policy change comes as officials wait for a CDC announcement on the future of Title 42, which has allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants during the pandemic.
As of earlier this month, ICE was holding just over 20,000 immigrants in its detention system, which consists mainly of county jails and for-profit prisons.
The expulsions have been carried out under Title 42, a pandemic border restriction first implemented by the Trump administration.
The announcement comes as President Biden is in Brussels meeting with NATO and EU allies.
The administration hopes the changes will drastically reduce the amount of time asylum-seekers wait for their claims to be decided while cutting down the backlog of cases.
Inna Kozyar was able to escape Ukraine with her daughters. But her elderly parents are stuck in Poland and can't join them in the U.S. because they don't have visas.
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