Migrants seeking asylum were crushed after Trump's inauguration. For his border supporters, it was a time to celebrate.
A briefing document provides an early glimpse into the practical application of Trump’s executive orders on immigration and the border.
However, these statistics do not show which country the arrested people come from. We did not find public records documenting prior mental-health hospitalizations of immigrants. Organizations including the Center for Immigration Studies,
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 entry programme, instituted by President Joe Biden, had allowed thousands of migrants to schedule appointments at entry points across the US-Mexico border.
In an effort to secure the Southern Border, President Donald Trump's administration has made significant changes to immigration policy during his first week in office.
Migrants who waited months to cross the U.S. border with Mexico learned their CBP One appointments had been canceled moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
Trump signing the order on Day 1 is "testing the outer limits of executive branch power in the immigration sphere," Erin Corcoran, executive director of Notre Dame University’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, said.
The CBP One app was set up under the Biden administration to create an orderly way for migrants to enter the U.S. and to reduce illegal border crossings.
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 has been wildly popular. It is an online lottery system to give appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings.