CBP One app no longer available, existing appointments canceled for migrants

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders aimed at strengthening security at the southern border have begun to be implemented following his inauguration. This move fulfills his key promise to address immigration issues.

As part of these actions, the Trump administration has discontinued the use of a border app known as CBP One, which has facilitated legal entry and work eligibility for almost a million individuals in the United States.

A statement posted on the Customs and Border Protection website shortly after Trump’s swearing-in informed users that the app used to schedule appointments at eight southwest border entry points is no longer operational. Any existing appointments made through the app have been invalidated.

A Venezuelan migrant shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone at a migrant tent camp in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

A Venezuelan migrant shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone at a migrant tent camp in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

AP Photo/Fernando Llano

The American Civil Liberties Union, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and other groups have filed a request for a status conference regarding the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the use of CBP One app and canceling all current appointments.

They’ve filed this request in their lawsuit against the Biden administration U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s asylum restrictions launched in June. They say they’re representing a mother, referred to in court documents as “S.O” and her two minor children, who had an appointment set for Saturday.

“Prior to its elimination, the CBP One appointment process allowed 1,450 migrants per day to seek asylum. As a result of the appointment process’s elimination, the right to seek asylum at the border no longer exists, no matter how great the danger faced by migrants, including families with children,” court documents say.

There could be as many as over 30,000 migrants who had appointments scheduled through the app over the next three weeks.

“In addition, for Individual Plaintiff S.O. and her family, as well as others who have relied on the appointment process and tried to comply with the Rule, their efforts were rendered futile. They have waited in dangerous conditions and in some cases spent much of their life savings waiting for appointments,” they write in the filing.

Other orders will rely more on the U.S. military and redefining who gets to become an American. But actual execution of such a far-reaching immigration agenda is certain to face legal and logistical challenges.

“I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came,” said Trump to thunderous applause as he spoke during his inauguration moments after being sworn into office.

The orders were also previewed Monday by an incoming White House official before Trump took office, and aim to end asylum access, send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, suspend the refugee program, force people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico and end birthright citizenship. There was little detail on specifically how these broad plans would be executed.

Many of the steps echoed previous ones during Trump’s first administration that also faced lawsuits. Others – like the effort to end the constitutional right to automatic citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. – marked sweeping new strategies that are expected to elicit pushback in the courts.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details before the orders are signed, some of them soon after he’s inaugurated Monday.

Immigrant communities around the country have been bracing for a crackdown that the incoming Republican president had been promising throughout his campaign and again at a rally Sunday.

The orders previewed were less specific about how Trump will fulfill his pledge of mass deportations of at least 11 million people already in the country illegally. One edict will equip immigration officers with “authorities needed” to enforce the law.

Trump and his aides have repeatedly said they would scrap President Joe Biden’s deportation priorities, which focused on people with criminal records and those who are national security threats, to include all people without legal status.

A key announcement was the effort to end birthright citizenship – one of Trump’s most sweeping immigration efforts yet.

Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen, a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment that was ratified in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War and assured citizenship for all, including Black people.

It applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. Trump’s effort to end that right is certain to face steep legal challenges, and the incoming White House official provided no information on how he intends to carry it out.

Trump also intends to suspend refugee resettlement for four months, the official said. That’s a program that for decades has allowed hundreds of thousands of people from around the world fleeing war and persecution to come to the United States.

Trump similarly suspended the refugee program at the beginning of his first term, and then after reinstating it, cut the numbers of refugees admitted into the country every year.

The Trump administration also intends to designate criminal cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and specifically aims to crack down on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and will remove those gang members from the country. The homegrown street gang was born in Venezuela but has become a menace even on American soil and exploded into the U.S. presidential campaign amid a spree of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the western hemisphere tied to a mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants.

The incoming administration also will order an end to releasing migrants in the U.S. while they await immigration court hearings, a practice known as “catch-and-release,” but officials didn’t say how they would pay for the enormous costs associated with detention.

Trump plans to “end asylum,” presumably going beyond what Biden has done to severely restrict it. It is unclear what the incoming administration will do with people of nationalities whose countries don’t take back their citizens, such as Nicaragua and Venezuela.

And it would reinstate the first Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forced about 70,000 asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. That measure would require cooperation from Mexico, and it is unclear how it jibes with pledges to end asylum altogether.

Mexico, a country integral to any American effort to limit illegal immigration, weighed in Monday morning, indicating they were prepared to receive asylum seekers that the U.S. makes wait in Mexico while emphasizing that there should be some sort of online application allowing them to schedule appointments at the U.S. border.

CBP One was used by the Biden administration to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country to pursue asylum claims. The Trump administration’s move Monday ended use of the app. The move adheres to a promise Trump made during his campaign and will please critics who say it was an overly generous magnet for more people to come to Mexico’s border with the United States.

The CBP One app had been wildly popular. It is an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings. They enter on immigration “parole,” a presidential authority that Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.

Trump will order the government, with Defense Department assistance, to “finish” construction of the border wall, though the official didn’t say how much territory that would cover. Barriers currently span about 450 miles (720 kilometers), slightly more than one-third of the border. Many areas that aren’t covered are in Texas, including inhospitable terrain where migrants rarely cross.

Sending troops to the border is a strategy that Trump has used before, as has Biden. In 2018, Trump deployed 800 active-duty troops to assist Border Patrol personnel in processing large migrant caravans. And in 2023, with the U.S. preparing to end pandemic-era restrictions on immigration, the Biden administration sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Both administrations also used National Guard troops along the border.

The official did not say how many troops Trump was planning to send, saying that would be up to the secretary of defense or what their role would be when they get there.

Historically, troops have been used to back up Border Patrol agents, who are responsible for securing the nearly 2,000-mile border separating the U.S. from Mexico and not in roles that put them in direct contact with migrants.

Critics have said that sending troops to the border sends the signal that migrants are a threat.

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