It is estimated that under the policy nearly 70,000 people were sent back to Mexico between 2019 and 2021 to await their cases, according to a report from the nonpartisan organization American Immigration Council. The San Ysidro-Tijuana port of entry was the first along the border to implement it.

Tens of thousands of appointments that were scheduled into February were canceled, including those scheduled for Jan. 20 when Trump took office.

The initial blow came with the end of CBP One, stranding thousands of asylum seekers with and without appointments

CBP One was launched in 2020, allowing foreign vendors to schedule cargo inspections. In 2023 the Biden administration expanded its functions to include unauthorized migrants seeking asylum. This Monday, on Inauguration Day, an order from Donald Trump put an end to the program, and thousands of scheduled appointments were canceled.

El primer golpe llegó con el fin de CBP One, dejando varados a miles de solicitantes de asilo con y sin citas.

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

Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past."

Since its launch in 2023, over 900,000 appointments were facilitated by the CBP One app, but its closure has left thousands of migrants in limbo.

TIJUANA, Baja California — They came from Haiti ... U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the CBP One app that worked as recently as that morning would no longer be used ...

Tijuana Mayor Ismael Burgueño Ruiz says he will not lift an emergency declaration he made last month as a way to prepare for mass deportations from the United States.

According to Vega Álvarez, consumers on both sides of the border will be the ones who will pay for the tariffs as "things will have to be overpriced."

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