In tears they burst out waiting at the southern U.S. border, as soon as they were informed that he turned off the app that facilitated their entry into the country almost immediately after his inauguration and installation at the White House. Donald Trump’s new American government terminated the use of a border application called “CBP One” that allowed immigrants to legally enter the US. CORVERSE Yesterday (20.01.2025) and almost immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, the CBP One application, created by the government of Joe Biden’s predecessor so that immigrants could make an appointment to apply for asylum before arriving in the US, ceased operating. State of emergency at the border with Mexico declared from the first day of taking office American President Donald Trump, ordering the U.S. Army, to guarantee their security and implementing his immigration policy. With the state of emergency, “all illegal entry will cease immediately and we will begin to expel millions of foreign criminals where they came from,” the new president said in his speech after his inauguration. ADVERSE “I will send the army to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country” he completed. “I don’t know what will happen to me,” laments 48-year-old Margelis Tinoko from Colombia. She hoped to pass to El Paso from the neighboring Mexican town of Siudad Juarez, when the CBP One app suddenly went dark. REUTERS/Jose Luis González “Please show mercy and let us pass”, the immigrant from Colombia pleaded to the American border guards. Dramatic appeal to Trump also addressed 27-year-old Cuban Yaime Perez: “After we’ve come this far, please let us go after what we’ve been through to get here. Let us enter your country, to improve our lives,” he said. Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole applications learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those applications are no longer valid. — Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) “Black” at CBP One – appointments cancelled for thousands of asylum seekers As early as the first day, the CBP One app, created by Joe Biden’s government so that they could make an appointment to apply for asylum before immigrants and immigrants arrived in the US, ceased operating. Many people found that their dates were cancelled. REUTERS/Jose Luis González REUTERS/Cheney Orr REUTERS/Daniel Becerril The application could be used to make appointments for asylum seekers – and it was also popular among tourists, helping them speed up their passage through airport customs. The CBP application used an electronic lottery mechanism to book about 1,450 appointments every day. She was particularly popular in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti. With this app, at least 43,000 immigrants could enter the country every month – since the implementation began in January 2023, over 900,000 immigrants had entered the US. “All non-documented foreigners seeking to enter the U.S. must turn around” otherwise they are expected “trial persecution and deportation”, tweeted via X (former Twitter) Stephen Miller, deputy secretary general of the White House of Trump. REUTERS/Zaydee Sanchez REUTERS/Jose Luis González During his campaign Trump used extremely harsh rhetoric against immigrants. He had reported that irregular immigration caused a “criminal wave” in the US. In this context, he had promised that his government would apply the death penalty for immigrants convicted of murders or other heinous crimes. At the same time, he announced that he characterizes the drug cartels “foreign terrorist organizations”, coming from Mexico promising to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks” in the US. These decisions, however, are likely to be challenged by organizations and states in which Democrats rule. Information from Dailymail
Donald Trump: Immigrants burst into tears once they signed the closure of the US-Mexico border
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