Migrants awaiting entry at the U.S.-Mexico border broke down Monday after officials in President Donald Trump's administration shut down CBP One, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly a million migrants with online appointments, reports the Daily Mail.
Several migrants who were waiting for their 1 p.m. CBP One parole appointments learned early Monday that the app had shut down. Washington Post reporter Arelis Hernandez shared video of Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, sobbing after learning the news.
Cuban asylum seeker Yaime Perez, who was waiting to cross the Paso del Norte International Border Bridge from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso in Texas on Monday, was also filmed weeping, per the Daily Mail.
Trump in his inauguration speech said he would "declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came."
The CBP One app gave appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings to enter on "parole," which Biden used more than any president.
It was a critical piece of his administration's border strategy to create new immigration pathways while cracking down on people who enter illegally.
Supporters say it brought order to a chaotic border. Critics say it was a magnet for more people to come.
By midday Monday, it was gone.
Melanie Mendoza, 21, and her boyfriend told the Associated Press they left Venezuela over a year ago, spending more than $4,000 and traveling for a month, including walking for three days.
"We don't know what we are going to do," she said in Tijuana, Mexico, just on the other side of the border from San Diego.
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