President Donald Trump’s administration has revealed that he has reviewed the online application known as CBP One, which was formerly used to process asylum claims on the southern United States border.
The application has now been reimbared as a self-deporting platform.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, made the announcement on Monday to statement Discovering the changes.
« The CBP Home application offers aliens the option of leaving now and self-deporting, so they can still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream, » said Noem.
« If they do not, we will find them, we will deport them and they will never return. »
The recently relaunched application is called CBP Home. Anyone with the pre -existing CBP One application will be redirected to the new version.
CBP One was one of the first targets of Trump’s second term. The day he returned to office on January 20, Trump issued a doubt Asking for the Government to stop using CBP One, as part of its wide repression against immigration.
The next day, the Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP) (the Federal Agency that led the application) confirmed that all asylum appointments made through the application had been canceled.
The decision left thousands of asylum seekers on the border, a few weeks or months of waiting for their scheduled appointments.
« It was a huge blow. After all, we have passed, all the wait, all the hope, it is incredibly discouraged, » an asylum seeker, Giovanni Martino, told the jazeera Last month.
CBP One launched during Trump’s first term, to organize a series of immigration services. He provided appointments for inspecting perishable goods sent to the United States border and allowed international travelers to check the status of their applications for admission I-94.
But in 2023, under Trump’s first term successor, President Joe Biden, the United States government announced that it would extend the use of the CBP One.
The application became the main means of claiming asylum on the border, in a controversial movement Than critics compared to Trump’s own attempts to decrease asylum.
Both North -American and International Law recognizes the right to seek asylum, and this includes the right to cross international borders if a claimant fears that persecution.
But the administration of Biden warned that, except in rare cases, asylum seekers crossing the border irregularly, outside the official ports of entry and without authorizing documents, they could face a five -year ban on re -entry the United States and a possible criminal persecution.
Her required That almost all asylum seekers in the United States-Mexico border register for dating through the application, or are confronted with expulsion.
However, when Trump campaigned for re -election in 2024, he and his allies accused Biden of using the application as a opening door for migrants to enter the United States.
In a October rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for example, Trump allegedly claimed that the application was used by Mexican cartels to unload the human load.
« They have an application used by cartel leaders, people who are winning billions of dollars. Cartel leaders think about it, call the application and say where to leave illegal migrants, » said Trump.
In the Monday statement, Noem doubled by the accusations of Trump that Biden misused the CBP One application.
« The Biden administration exploded the CBP One application to allow more than one million extrers to enter the United States illegally, » he said. « With the launch of the CBP Home application, we are restoring the integrity in our immigration system. »
The CBP Home application was framed as part of a broader advertising campaign pursued by the Trump administration, entitled « Be out and leave now. »
The Trump administration has revoked several legal avenues for migrants to stay in the United States, including temporary protected state and humanitarian probation for certain groups.
Trump also issued a proclamation that suspends asylum processing on the border indefinitely, a critical movement Think of illegal. Currently groups such as American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are struggling to lift suspension before the court.
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