The CBP One app has been highly popular, functioning as an online lottery system that grants appointments to 1,450 people daily at eight border crossings. These individuals enter the U.S. under immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden has exercised more frequently than any other president since its creation in 1952.

Just hours after the inauguration, migrants with CBP One appointments along the U.S.-Mexico border learned that all CBP One appointments were canceled.

Mexico City's makeshift migrant camp was full of uncertainty on Monday after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million people. (AP/ Fernanda Pesce

Footage taken by a Washington Post reporter in Juarez, Mexico, showed migrants who had been waiting for appointments they’d scheduled through CBP One weeping at the gates of America after they learned the app had been shut down and their appointments scrapped.

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that on January 20, 2025, at 11 p.m., the feature of CBP One™ that allowed people to submit information and book appointments at eight southwest border ports is no longer available.

CBP One, a border app that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work, was abruptly shut down on Monday, shortly after President-elect Donald Trump took office.

The CBP One app went offline as President Donald Trump returned to power. The move is likely a precursor to Trump's immigration policies.

Within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as president, a federal phone app used to facilitate illegal entry into the country was terminated Monday.

The CBP One app, a government platform that the Biden administration used to admit more than 740,000 immigrants into the United States, was shuttered within moments of President Donald Trump taking office this afternoon.

Trump administration officials minutes after the new president took office on Monday shut down a mobile app for migrants to make appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border. By shutting down the CBP

The Trump administration Monday ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.