NEW: Trump ends CBP One app after taking office

President Donald Trump has ended the CBP One application, which has allowed immigrants to come to the border after setting an asylum claim appointment, according to the Associated Press. 

The outlet reported that Trump ended the app after he was sworn into office, which "gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants with online appointments."

The CBP One app under the Biden administration allowed immigrants coming to the United States to register for an appointment at the border to claim asylum, and afterwards would be released into the US pending immigration court dates. 
 

"Effective January 20, 2025, the functionalities of CBP One™ that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available, and existing appointments have been cancelled," the CBP One app website said after the president took the action to end the program. 

In order to create a profile on the CBP One app and cross the border, one did not need any verified identification documents. 

According to a previous House Homeland Security Committee review of the app, “95.8 percent of all inadmissible aliens who scheduled appointments through the app during this time were ultimately issued a ‘Notice to Appear’ (NTA) and released into the United States on parole” during 2023.  

According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, parole "is not intended to be used solely to avoid normal visa processing procedures and timelines, to bypass inadmissibility waiver processing, or to replace established refugee processing channels," and immigrants paroled into the US have "not been formally admitted into the United States for purposes of immigration law."

The CBP One app was originally created for trade and commercial use, however, the Biden administration used it to create a pathway whereby migrants could claim asylum, and then reside in the United States until their court date arrived on their NTA. Some NTAs were marked with court dates years down after their initial entry, even up to 10, the AP previously reported. 

Among those who used the CBP One app to gain entry into the United States were a suspected terrorist from Tajikistan with ties to ISIS as well as an Haitian immigrant charged with murdering his roommates. 

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was picked as Trump's nominee for DHS Secretary, and said in a Senate hearing last week that she would end the CBP One app on the first day Trump took office.

She added in the hearing that there’s "data and information in there that we will preserve so that we can ensure we know who’s coming into this country and who’s already here that we need to go find, but also make sure that — there’s another program, CHNV, which I’m sure you’re very familiar with, where our federal government actually paid to fly people into this country directly from other countries without any vetting or knowing who they are."

The CHNV program, which stands for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, has allowed over 531,000 people to come into the US and granted parole. The program was "temporarily paused" during mid-July last year due to fraud.