Donald Trump has already disabled one of Joe Biden’s key immigration policies that made it easier for nearly a million migrants to cross.
Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app, which provided a variety of services, including scheduling asylum appointments for immigrants, is no longer online.
“As of January 20, 2025, CBP One capabilities that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry are no longer available, and existing appointments have been canceled.” , CBP said. website states.
After Trump was sworn in at noon local time, the app stopped working.
The app offered a variety of services, but was popular because it helped immigrants make appointments online or in person to explain why they wanted to enter the United States to work.
Every pending appointment on the app was effectively canceled when Trump took office, causing panic among those who wanted to enter the US.
Videos immediately emerged from the US-Mexico border showing people with appointments, some for as early as 1 p.m. local time, beginning to cry as their hopes for a path to the United States faded.
Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia hoping to enter the United States just south of the Mexican border, fell to her knees after learning of Trump’s new policies.
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Immediately many of his policies went into effect, such as the closure of CBP One.

Margelis Tinoco, a Colombian migrant, reacts after receiving the news that her appointment with the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was canceled, on the day of the inauguration of the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, at the Paso del Norte international border bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico January 20, 2025
“I will declare a national emergency at our southern border,” Trump said to wild applause as he addressed the crowd at his swearing-in ceremony.
“All illegal entry will immediately stop and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came.”
The application made it significantly easier for immigrants to receive flights to the United States from other countries.
In total, the Biden administration brought more than 320,000 immigrants to the United States.
The major border city of El Paso, Texas, temporarily closed its border crossings on Monday around Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
Authorities in riot gear, shields and full armor were photographed standing guard at border crossings.
The enhanced security comes as other parts of President Trump’s agenda are put into action.
In his remarks, the president noted how he is reinstating his “Remain in Mexico” policy and ending catch and release, a policy that allowed those who illegally crossed the border seeking asylum to be detained and then released into the country. while awaiting a court date. Monday afternoon.
He is reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, which makes illegal immigrants wait in the last country they crossed from, which is usually Mexico, while they wait for a court date to file their asylum claims.
Other initial goals outlined by incoming White House officials in a phone call Monday include reexamining birthright citizenship and asylum, sending U.S. troops to the border after Trump declared a national emergency and suspending refugee programs.

Migrants who requested asylum through the US Customs and Border Protection, CBP, queue at the facilities of the National Migration Institute (INM) of Mexico to ensure safe passage to the northern border with the US ., in Tapachula, Mexico, on January 20, 2025.

Migrants awaiting entry to the US while in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Ending birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants would mean that anyone born on American soil, but whose parents are undocumented aliens, would no longer be a de facto citizen of the United States of America.
However, there are advocates who argue that this goes against the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which created the single rule of birthright citizenship for anyone born in the US.