The Biden administration has welcomed hundreds of thousands of new migrants into the country with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One App.
In January, the White House announced illegal migrants could enter the country from central and northern Mexico so long as they make an appointment with CBP on the mobile app. The new initiative was designed to “significantly reduce wait times and crowds at U.S. ports of entry and allow for safe, orderly, and humane processing.” The “lawful pathways” strategy, however, has been exploited to usher in thousands of new migrants otherwise inadmissible.
According to the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, the app was exploited by Central American cartels using virtual private networks (VPN) to smuggle people across the border. The use of the VPN allows migrants to conceal their true location to schedule an appointment even if they are far from northern Mexico.
“Immigrants outside Mexico have new hope to make the journey north after a two-month downturn in illegal immigration apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in May and June as the Biden administration threatened more severe consequences for immigrants who enter the country illegally rather than through its app or other legal pathways,” reported the Examiner. “The emergence of the VPNs may be a contributing factor for the 30% increase in border encounters by U.S. authorities in July, which the Washington Post reported this week had suddenly gone up since early May despite the summer historically being a slow time.”
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee
