As President Donald Trump took office for the second time on Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the discontinuation of the CBP One app. The app, which allowed undocumented individuals “to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry,

President Donald Trump on Monday officially shut down the Customs and Border Protection-run app designed to help schedule appointments for people seeking eligibility for asylum, closing off a pathway for migrants at the Southern border hoping to enter the United States.

Just as Donald Trump's inauguration concluded, Honduran asylum seeker Denia Mendez's phone buzzed with alarming news: the CBP One app, her lifeline to a new life in the US, was down.

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.

The CBP One entry programme, instituted by President Joe Biden, had allowed thousands of migrants to schedule appointments at entry points across the US-Mexico border.

Roberto, a shopkeeper from southern Mexico who had been waiting in Tijuana for his CBP One appointment on Jan. 22, is crushed now that the price charged by smugglers to help migrants cross has shot up to 140,000 Mexican pesos ($6,900) from roughly 85,000 Mexican pesos ($4,200).

The CBP One app has been wildly popular. It is an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings.

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

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.

I say this is an “easy” solution, but we have seen that changes to immigration policy are never easy. Former President Joe Biden, in allowing some 8 million people to enter our nation illegally over four years, has hardened Americans against immigration.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus highlighted how those policies would harm three specific groups — farm workers, immigrant families and so-called Dreamers.