Trump officials shut down CBP One app

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Trump administration officials stopped a mobile app for migrants to schedule appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border shortly after the new president took office on Monday.

Chosen by migrants without documents, who attempted to enter the United States at legal border checkpoints.

The app shutdown is part of a series of measures taken by the incoming administration to strengthen border control, despite a significant drop in migration over the past six months.

According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, American officials encountered 96,048 foreign nationals at the border in December. Roughly half of them, a total of 48,722, arrived at a port of entry to request official entry into the United States.

Before November, the last full month with fewer than 100,000 encounters was January 2021, when the President was inaugurated. Last January, CBP encountered 78,414 people, with only 3,098 presenting themselves at official border crossings. The rest were detained by the Border Patrol after entering the country illegally.

CBP One was a major part of the Biden administration's efforts to direct migrants through authorized routes to seek asylum in the United States.

On Monday, several of which are related to the border, several are seeking to undo those pathways.

The actions are intended to effectively close off the border and revert to policies previously implemented by the Trump administration, such as the widely known "remain in Mexico" policy.

Under that policy, at the time officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, approximately 70,000 non-U.S. citizens from a third country were sent back to Mexico over the course of about two years to wait for the outcome of their U.S. asylum cases.

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