Immigration in 2019: Trump restricts asylum and overhauls legal immigration
2019 was arguably the Trump administration's most successful one in its quest to severely restrict asylum and overhaul the legal immigration system.
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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 also worked as 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.
2019 was arguably the Trump administration's most successful one in its quest to severely restrict asylum and overhaul the legal immigration system.
ICE says the effort is designed to ensure the safety of migrant minors in U.S. custody, but advocates believe it is a move to deport undocumented immigrants who try to sponsor their children family members.
The Trump administration is weighing the possibility of sending Mexican asylum-seekers to Guatemala, which has seen hundreds of thousands of its own citizens trek north in the past year.
The creation of the legalization program is an unlikely victory for immigrant advocates under the Trump administration, which has overseen a crackdown on both legal and unauthorized immigration.
The proposed rule would block migrants from seeking asylum if they committed certain crimes, including using false documents and possession of a controlled substance.
Since June 2018, the administration has separated 1,134 migrant families. Advocates and the government disagree over whether they were justified.
Official believe their stringent measures to restrict access to America's asylum system are sending a powerful message of deterrence
The chair of the House Intelligence Committee said Democrats can't charge every transgression they believe President Trump has committed while in office in their articles of impeachment
The New Jersey senator has not qualified for the next Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles later this month.
The estimate was revealed by a watchdog report, which also found the U.S. can't calculate how many families it separated due to unreliable data.
The No. 2 Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Nunes is promoting conspiracy theories to defend President Trump
"Defense will go on offense if there is a Senate trial," White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told "Face the Nation" Sunday
The first asylum-seeker deported by the U.S. under the controversial deal with Guatemala arrived in Guatemala City on Thursday morning
A shakeup at USCIS, the agency which oversees the nation's immigration system, has seen the promotion of two officials who once worked for an anti-immigration organization described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley said on "Face the Nation" that President Trump has a history of talking like a "mobster"