Hundreds of thousands of migrants lost scheduled appointments after CBP One app was disabled, creating uncertainty at the US-Mexico border.
Outside Tijuana's customs facility and its coveted access to U.S. soil, migrants sat in disbelief this week, their futures feeling much darker and uncertain.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the CBP One app that worked as recently as that morning would no longer be used to admit migrants. Tens of thousands of appointments were canceled.
A wide-ranging series of steps President Donald Trump has promised to beef up security at the southern border is beginning to take effect.
The CBP One app went offline as President Donald Trump returned to power. The move is likely a precursor to Trump's immigration policies.
US President Donald Trump has said he could arm 88,000 Internal Revenue Service agents and send them to guard the country’s southern border.
Migrants in Mexico who were hoping to come to the U.S. are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality after President Donald Trump began cracking down on border security.
The initial blow came with the end of CBP One, stranding thousands of asylum seekers with and without appointments
The Trump administration is ending 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.
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.
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A nurse who fled Cuba as part of ... allowing them to avoid walking through the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle in Colombia and Panama. By the spring of 2022, Cubans eclipsed all nationalities but Mexicans in illegal crossings.