Migrants with CBP One appointments turned away at Mexico border, AP Explains

(20 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 20 January 2025
1. Wide of asylum seekers leaving immigration processing center along border with U.S. after being turned away and told that their CBP One appointments were invalid
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Gonzalez, The Associated Press:
"I'm Valerie Gonzalez with The Associated Press here in Matamoros, just across from Brownsville, Texas. Just a couple of minutes ago, we saw two large groups of migrants who had CBP One appointments for today and for two days from now. They were brought from the airport, they told us, here to the bridge. They were allowed to go inside, where they were told that all appointments were canceled. They were escorted out, many of them not knowing where to go, or what comes next."
3. Cars lined up on Mexican side of border trying to enter U.S.
4. Shot of Rio Grande river shot through border crossing between U.S. and Mexico
5. Various of officer activity along border

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brownsville, Texas - 20 January 2025
6. Tracking shot of pedestrian bridge heading into Mexico

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 20 January 2025
7. STILL image of a migrant seeking asylum holding up the CBP One app showing his appointment was canceled after President Donald Trump was sworn into office
8. Various STILL images of migrants seeking asylum leaving an immigration office, some loading into a taxi, after their scheduled meetings were canceled and they were turned away soon after President Donald Trump canceled the CBP One app
STORYLINE:
Just two hours after the inauguration, in Matamoros, Mexico, just across from Brownsville, Texas, two groups of migrants with border CBP One appointments were picked up from the airport by Mexican officials and taken to the international bridge where they were told all future appointments would be cancelled.

About 50 migrants rolled their suitcases back to the Mexican side of the bridge, some with their children in their arms. They gathered near the bridge and considered their next options as they faced a steady stream of drizzle and near freezing temperatures the next day.

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

A notice on the website of Customs and Border Protection on Monday just after Trump was sworn in let users know that the app that had been used to allow migrants to schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available. The notice said that existing appointments have been canceled.

The move adheres to a promise Trump made during his campaign and will please critics who say it was an overly generous magnet for more people to come to Mexico’s border with the United States.

The CBP One app had been wildly popular.

It is an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings. They enter on immigration “parole,” a presidential authority that Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.

AP Video shot by Valerie Gonzalez

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