Under the CBP One scheme, foreign nationals with an appointment can cross “legally” to meet US Customs and Border Protection officials, who have approved 99.7% of them for quick releases into Ameri…
A woman from Kyrgyzstan studying her CBP One phone app in a Matamoros, Mexico, hotel, waiting for her appointment to cross into Brownsville, Texas, for U.S. entry, May 2023.Senator demands more info after 172 on terror watch list try to enter USEric Adams wins: Data prove ‘tough love’ works amid NYC migrant crisis
Approved for walkovers include people from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, with some of the largest numbers coming from Muslim-majority former Soviet republics such as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. A record-breaking 270 apprehended SIAs on the FBI’s terrorism watch list were among the estimated more than 1.8 million “gotaways” Border Patrol says entered the US interior undetected since Biden took office in 2021.
After announcing this scheme as the cornerstone of its border policy in January 2023 and mainly for just four nationalities — Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans — the administration shrouded it in secrecy, deflecting all records requests and inquiries by other members of Congress. The administration approved 1,086 Armenians, 888 from Belarus, 244 from Azerbaijan and dozens from mainland China and Mongolia.
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