(20 Jan 2025)
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – 20 January 2025
1. Various of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officers checking IDs of the last group of migrants with CBP One appointments at a point of entry before letting them through ++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Migrants standing in line ++NIGHT SHOTS++
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julio González, migrant from Mexico: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING/NIGHT SHOT++
"Let’s hope that with the arrival of Donald Trump, the app will continue, because there are many people who deserve it."
4. Various of migrants waiting in line ++NIGHT SHOTS++
5. Border officers checking migrants’ IDs ++NIGHT SHOT++
6. Various of people walking ++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Border officers checking IDs ++NIGHT SHOT++
8. Close of border officer ++NIGHT SHOT++
9. Close of CBP logo ++NIGHT SHOT++
10. Various of vehicles on Mexico-U.S. border bridge ++NIGHT SHOT++
11. Rio Grande seen through chain wire fence ++NIGHT SHOT++
12. Various of migrants waiting on Mexican side of border
13. Luggage on ground
14. Margelis Tinoco, 48, crying after learning she lost her CBP One appointment following Donald Trump’s inauguration
15. Various of CBP One app on phone showing cancelled appointment, reading (Spanish): “Existing appointments scheduled through CBP One are no longer valid.”
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margelis Tinoco, migrant from Colombia:
"I don’t have any answer to give my son. What is going to happen? He comes and asks me what is going to happen. What do I tell my son? I don’t have any answer because I don’t know what’s going to happen to us. We are left on the street."
17. Paso del Norte border bridge
18. Vehicles queuing at border and sign reading (Spanish): "Chihuahua wishes you a safe trip."
STORYLINE:
Dozens of migrants were left waiting Monday on the Mexican side of the border after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million people.
A notice on the website of Customs and Border Protection on Monday just after Trump was sworn in let users know that the app called CBP One was no longer available and that existing appointments had been cancelled.
The app was an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.
Migrants were admitted on immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.
Early Monday, one of the last groups of migrants who had obtained appointments through the highly popular app was allowed to enter the U.S.
But the following group, which was set to go through customs just minutes after Trump’s inauguration, was not as fortunate.
Margelis Tinoco, 48, was waiting in line at the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso border crossing when she received a message through the app saying that the appointment she had tried to get for six months had been cancelled.
She had travelled from Colombia with her 13-year-old son and Venezuelan husband. She said she can’t go back.
"What do I tell my son?" Tinoco said through tears. "I don’t have an answer because I don’t know what’s going to happen."
The move to shut down the app 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 has brought nearly one million people to the U.S. on two-year permits with eligibility to work since January 2023.
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