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Trump shuts down immigration app, dashing migrants' hopes of entering U.S. | The CBP One app was set up under the Biden administration to create an orderly way for migrants to enter the U.S. and to reduce illegal border crossings.


The CBP One app was set up under the Biden administration to create an orderly way for migrants to enter the U.S. and to reduce illegal border crossings.

Tears and disappointment flowed Monday after newly sworn-in President Donald Trump cut off a mobile app that allowed migrants to apply to enter the U.S. legally as asylum-seekers. Another migrant, Julio Alberto Hernández, originally from El Salvador and waiting in Tijuana, told Noticias Telemundo that his appointment was three or four days away. Honduran Denia Mendez, sitting in the courtyard of a migrant shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico — across from Eagle Pass, Texas — stared at an email for several minutes, before her eyes welled with tears.

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