Bogotá, Jan 20 (EFE).- The CBP One mobile app, which allowed migrants to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight ports of entry to request asylum in the United States, stopped working Monday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on its website.
On Monday, during US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, he outlined plans to carry out mass deportations and militarize the border.
The message on the CBP website, which refers to migrants in transit in Mexico as “undocumented aliens,” also warned that “scheduled” appointments have already been canceled.
“We do not know whether the program called CBP One will remain or not, but if eliminated, what we want is something similar to be established because it has shown results,” said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in her Monday morning conference.
Trump plans to sign 10 executive orders on migration on Monday, including one to strengthen border control with the deployment of the military, declare Mexican cartels terrorists, and revive the “Remain in Mexico” migration program.
On Monday, the migrants were greeted by a notice from the National Migration Institute stating that they would no longer be able to visit the offices in Tapachula, the largest city on the border with Central America, if they wanted to continue with their CBP One application, as EFE verified.
During Joe Biden’s administration (2021-2025), the US launched the CBP One application for migrants at the Mexican border to request asylum.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, more than 930,000 people showed up at ports of entry to have their cases processed by the authorities when the application started functioning in January 2023.
In December 2024, the last month with official data published, around 44,000 people entered the US through this process.
The application freed up 1,450 slots daily at seven border ports of entry.
The top nationalities that accessed the US with a CBP One appointment were “Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico,” CBP reported last week. EFE
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