President-elect Donald Trump may soon make good on his promise to eliminate the Biden administration’s CBP One app, a government phone app that allows immigrants to apply for entry through programs which goes around Congress.
“As President I will immediately end the attack on America’s immigrants. We will stop migrant flights, end all illegal applications, end Kamala’s phone app for illegal smuggling (CBP One App), revoke export immunity, send stop refugee resettlement, and we will return Kamala illegal immigrants to their home countries (also known as repatriation),” Trump wrote in a post to X on September 15.
As President I will immediately end the immigration attack on America. We will stop migrant flights, end all illegal applications, end Kamala’s phone app for illegal smuggling (CBP One App), revoke export immunity, send stop refugee resettlement, and we will return…
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2024
But the campaign promises to eliminate the immigration actions the Biden administration added to the US Customs and Border Protection app that could lead to an influx of illegal immigrants or the opposite effect over and draw fewer people from outside the United States to the southern border, according to immigration policy analysts.
If Trump cancels the app, immigrants in Mexico would not be able to apply for appointments and choose to walk across the border illegally. But canceling the application would also mean that immigrants who are home countries could choose not to travel to the US knowing that there is no chance of being paroled into the majority through Recruitment process.
Removing the app could encourage more people to rush to the border in the short term, hoping to get an appointment on the long waiting list, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior at American Immigration Council in Washington.
“The end of the Biden administration’s other legal avenues could lead to an increase in migration at the border, although the exact effect is difficult to predict with certainty,” Reichlin-Melnick said in a message. ‘ Ending the CBP One process at ports of entry may allow some migrants to try their luck at crossing illegally, rather than waiting months in Mexico for a shot at entering legally .
The Biden-Harris administration added two functions to the app in early 2023 that allowed immigrants to apply from outside the country for entry or to meet with a US customs official. The move was intended to give immigrants a way to enter without coming illegally across the southern border between ports of entry, but Republicans have criticized it as a setback for hundreds to let thousands of people into the country in less than two years.
The CBP One app allows immigrants from four countries, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, to apply to enter the US on parole, which allows a person to stay for two years and a work permit get Recipients must have a sponsor in the US and pay for their international commercial flight. Since the process was fully implemented in January 2023, more than half a million people have been admitted.
The app’s action to allow immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to apply and fly into the country was part of a “carrot and stick deal with Mexico,” and in return, Mexico allowed the US to remove some citizens. those countries at the border back to Mexico.
“Ending the program could threaten that deal, limiting the US’s ability to deal with migration from countries like Venezuela that block export flights,” said Reichlin-Melnick.
The app’s second function is to allow immigrants in Mexico to schedule an appointment at a port of entry on the southern border to meet with US customs officials. Up to 1,450 meetings can be scheduled per day – for a total of over 43,000 per month. Immigrants who book appointments wait months to be seen at one of eight ports of entry used for appointments and are overbooked.
The Center for Immigration Studies takes a hard-line approach to immigration and sees the CBP One app as something that goes beyond the authority of the executive branch.
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, called the CBP One app a “gateway” for immigrants to enter the country because it lures them to Mexico, where they can then request an appointment.
Eric Ruark, director of research for the nonpartisan immigration group NumbersUSA, said the Biden White House had yet to indicate whether it would increasingly try to increase the number of daily meetings to get more people into the country before Trump takes office.
“The Biden administration has parole and [temporary protected status] and the CBP One app to bring people in under what they say are legal channels. Are they going to try to speed those up to get more people in and then have the Trump administration deal with the headache of trying to reverse those things,” said Ruark. “I would expect that they are going to try to get as many people in by January [2025].”
The Trump administration may already have a solution to deal with the influx of people who, because difficult positions are no longer available, choose to enter the US between the ports of entry.
Trump could reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as “Stay in Mexico,” which required immigrants seeking asylum to stay south of the border while their cases going through immigration court.
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Additionally, last June, President Joe Biden took executive action that severely impacted the ability of illegal immigrants arriving at the border to seek asylum. immigrants arrested for crossing the border illegally who did not seek asylum.
If Trump kept Biden’s executive order in place, immigrants caught between ports of entry would be “automatically ineligible for asylum” and face a five-year ban on seeking asylum.
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