Migrants have already found a loophole allowing them to hand themseleves over at the border and claim asylum without making an appointment through the CBP One app — which could effectively open the…
Migrants have already found a loophole allowing them to hand themseleves over at the border and claim asylum without making an appointment through the CBP One app — which could effectively open the floodgates for thousands more to turn up at the southern border.
The mobile immigration app was trumpeted by the Biden Administration as the only legal pathway for asylum-seekers after Title 42 ended in May. It allows 1,000 people a day to cross into the US and claim asylum. After failing to secure an appointment on his own, Cesar Segura read the application’s fine print — which states if “language barriers, illiteracy or technical issues,” stop a person from completing the process online, they can just show up to a US port of entry in person and request an interviewSince he was waved through last week, 400 more migrants have amassed near the San Diego border, according to the report.
An asylum-seekers shows a US Customs and Border Protection officer her scheduled appointment through the CBP One App at the San Ysidro Port of Entry near San Diego, Cali.“I tried many times to set up an interview on the app but it never worked,” Segura told the Border Report, speaking in Spanish.The frustrated Venezuelan, and a few other migrants, had showed up to the San Ysidro Port of Entry and waited four days on the California-Mexico border to learn if their interviews had been granted.
Segura was interviewed by immigration officials, who said he met the asylum-threshold and allowed him to be released into the country legally to wait and hear if he will ultimately be granted asylum in the US — a process that can take years.
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