The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.
The president is making good on his campaign promise with attempts to beef up security at the border and limit immigration.
The CBP One app has been highly popular, functioning as an online lottery system that grants appointments to 1,450 people daily at eight border crossings. These individuals enter the U.S. under immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden has exercised more frequently than any other president since its creation in 1952.
Hundreds of migrants refused to leave the San Ysidro border checkpoint even after the CBP One app went dark and all upcoming appointments were cancelled, and some broke down in tears.
SAN DIEGO — Migrants waiting to enter the US using former Joe Biden’s CBP One app broke down in tears after their appointments were canceled the moment President Trump took office Monday – just the first of the sweeping border actions the new administration prepared for the first day.
CBP One was used by the Biden administration to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country to pursue asylum claims.
Columnist David Marcus warns that we are about to be inundated with sob stories from the border of migrants being denied entry into the U.S. Blame former President Joe Biden, not President Trump, Marcus writes.
Trump ends CBP One, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants with online appointments.
As President Donald Trump took office for the second time on Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the discontinuation of the CBP One app. The app, which allowed undocumented individuals “to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry,
CBS News made sure to keep filming as a Columbian migrant was reportedly moved to tears after hearing immigration rules have changed under the new president. President […]
The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.