Hundreds of thousands of migrants lost scheduled appointments after CBP One app was disabled, creating uncertainty at the US-Mexico border.
The initial blow came with the end of CBP One, stranding thousands of asylum seekers with and without appointments
President Trump took action to close the nation’s southern border and terminate a widely used app. Many migrants expressed despair, and some moved to cross the border anyway.
About 200 migrants who had their CBP One immigration appointments canceled when President Trump was sworn into office are refusing to leave the San Ysidro border checkpoint until they are seen.
Mexico was raising sprawling tents on the U.S. border Wednesday as it braced for President Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to reverse mass migration.
CBP One has been wildly popular, especially with Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Mexicans. Now, they were stranded at the U.S. border or deeper in Mexico.
The president moved quickly to cancel the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments to gain entry into the United States, turning away potentially tens of thousands of migrants.
Migrant shelters in Tijuana — located across the border from San Diego, California — are bracing for a possible surge in the influx of migrants should US President Donald Trump carry out his mass deportation plan.
Unfortunately for the from Venezuelan native, her session was scheduled for Jan. 20, the day President Trump ended the use of the CBP One for asylum seekers and canceled all appointments. “A year and a half waiting,” Mendoza said. “At the very hour it was set for, they tell us that the appointments aren’t valid anymore.”
Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.
The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.