Navy base to serve as hub for Chicago immigration crackdown, memo indicates
Homeland Security personnel and equipment began arriving at Naval Station Great Lakes earlier this week, a U.S. official familiar with the operation told CBS News.
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Montoya-Galvez has received numerous awards for his groundbreaking and in-depth reporting on immigration, including a national Emmy Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and several New York Emmy Awards.
Over several years, he has built one of the leading and most trusted national sources of immigration news, filing breaking news pieces, as well as exclusive reports and in-depth feature stories on the impact of major policy changes.
Montoya-Galvez was the first reporter to obtain and publish the names of the Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, with little to no due process. Using that list, he co-produced a "60 Minutes" report that found most of the deported men did not have apparent criminal records, despite the administration's claims that they were all dangerous criminals and gang members. Montoya-Galvez was also the first journalist to interview Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and imprisoned at the CECOT prison.
In 2025 alone, Montoya Galvez broke dozens of other exclusive stories. He disclosed the internal Trump administration plan to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela; landed the first national network sit-down interviews with the current heads of ICE and Border Patrol; and obtained government data showing that illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2025 plummeted to the lowest level since 1970 amid Trump's crackdown.
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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.
Montoya-Galvez was born in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, and raised in New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in Media and Journalism Studies and Spanish from Rutgers University.
Homeland Security personnel and equipment began arriving at Naval Station Great Lakes earlier this week, a U.S. official familiar with the operation told CBS News.
The Trump administration is seeking to end temporary protections and work permits for nearly 270,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The case involves 10 migrants between 10- and 17-years-old who entered the U.S. without authorization and without their parents or legal guardians.
A federal judge dealt a major blow to the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts late Friday, blocking it from expanding a process called expedited removal nationwide.
Immigration officials are moving detainees out of a controversial, state-run detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
The Trump administration is reinstating a long-dormant practice of conducting "neighborhood checks" to vet immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship.
The Trump administration may try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda days after he was released from pre-trial detention, according to a DHS official.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been reunited with family and plans to travel to Maryland before returning to Tennessee in January for his criminal trial.
A federal judge ordered an indefinite halt to further construction or expansion at "Alligator Alcatraz," in a setback for the Trump administration and Florida officials.
An appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for over 60,000 people from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal — at least for now.
The Trump administration has directed officials to probe any "anti-American" views and activities of immigrants applying for immigration benefits like green cards and work permits.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador only to be brought back to face smuggling charges — asked a federal judge to dismiss his indictment.
The U.S. has expanded its campaign to persuade countries to aid its crackdown on illegal immigration by accepting deportations of migrants who are not their own citizens.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services instructed officers on Friday to consider additional factors when determining whether immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship have a "good moral character."
The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.