Miami.- As of January 20, 2025, the functionalities of CBP One that allowed undocumented foreigners to present information in advance and program appointments in eight entrance ports of the southwest border They are no longer availableand existing appointments have been canceled, Department of National Security of the United States reported.
The administration of the new US president, Donald Trump, disabled the CBP One application on Monday and canceled the appointments scheduled to legally enter and request asylum in the United States.
The measure was adopted minutes after Trump took possession as President number 47. On the border between the United States and Mexico, scenes of migrants were observed crying upon learning that they had canceled their turn for their procedure that allowed to legally enter the US territory.
National emergency at the border
Donald Trump will issue a series of executive orders aimed at changing the way in which the United States dealt with citizenship and immigration issues, and will decree the national emergency on the border with Mexico, he said in his first speech at the head of the White House.
Trump, who assumed the presidency on Monday, You must start working immediately after your sworn with a series of decrees aimed at drastically reducing the number of migrants entering the country.
“First, I’m going to declare a national emergency In our southern border “with Mexico, said the president in the Capitol, where he was enthusiasticly cheered, AFP reported.
“Everything will stop illegal entry and we will begin the process of return of millions and millions of criminal foreigners to the places where they come from, “he added.
Program
The CBP One application was officially launched on January 12, 2023 As a free tool addressed to immigrants in Mexico to program an appointment and present when necessary in one of the eight border points arranged along the border and opt for a humanitarian permit that allows legal entry to the United States . Migration authorities said it is an instrument to program appointments and not a formal asylum application.
In the first six months of its implementation, more than 170,000 people successfully scheduled an appointment. Haiti immigrants, Mexico and Venezuela made the greatest number of applications. The latest figures from the Office of Customs and Border Protection indicate that in the 21 months that the program is in force, around 800,000 migrants legally arrived in the United States.
People who presented themselves to the border post designated (Brownsville, Eagle Pass, Hidalgo, Laredo, El Paso, Nogales, Calexico and San Ysidro) were processed and, according to the analysis of each case, they could be considered for a humanitarian permit of up to two years in order to continue their procedures of Immigration under Title 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Law. They were eligible to request a job authorization document.
