Soldier speaks out after ICE releases wife
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano's wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega, after she spent a month in detention. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano's wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega, after she spent a month in detention. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
After a month in custody, the wife of an active-duty U.S. solider has been released by ICE. Jose Serrano's wife was detained in April during an immigration appointment that was supposed to protect military spouses from being deported.
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President Trump promised to hold 30,000 migrants facing deportation at Guantanamo Bay. A year later, it's mostly empty. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the details.
President Trump said at the beginning of his second presidential term that the U.S. would hold 30,000 migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, but the facility remains mostly empty. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
Internal government documents and information given to Congress show the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba remains mostly empty a year after President Trump vowed to use it to house thousands of migrants facing deportation. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Trump administration has expanded efforts to revoke the citizenship of certain foreign-born Americans who allegedly obtained it through fraud. Blanche told CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez, "There are a lot of individuals who are citizens who shouldn't be."
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