People are considering whether to apply for permission to settle in Mexico, return home, or wait to see what Trump comes up with next.
El primer golpe llegó con el fin de CBP One, dejando varados a miles de solicitantes de asilo con y sin citas.
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.
The Trump administration has ended use of the border app called CBP One that allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wide-ranging series of steps that President Donald Trump has promised to take to beef up security at the southern border began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration.
Donald Trump ended asylum requests at the border with the CBP One app. This is the wrong policy. While the asylum process must be overhauled, the
President Trump took action to close the nation’s southern border and terminate a widely used app. Many migrants expressed despair, and some moved to cross the border anyway.
The president moved quickly to cancel the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments to gain entry into the United States, turning away potentially tens of thousands of migrants.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s promises to beef up security at the southern border with Mexico began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration and marking another wild swing in White House policy on the divisive issue.
Maria Mercado, who is from Colombia but arrived from Ecuador, gets emotional as she sees that her 1pm appointment was canceled on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app, as she and her family wait at the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday, Jan. 20. 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
For millions in the U.S. illegally or with temporary legal status, the start of Donald Trump’s second term as president comes with a feeling their time in the U.S. may end soon.