Lawmaker: CBP One App a ‘Racket’ for Would-Be Illegal Immigrants to Gain Entry

Democrats say the CBP One phone app streamlines process for migrants entering under the greatly-expanded ‘humanitarian parole’ program.

Illegal immigrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Dec. 13, 2022. Herika Martine/AFP via Getty Images

Republicans called the Biden administration’s use of the CBP One phone app a “mass parole scheme” to unlawfully allow hundreds of thousands of would-be illegal immigrants into the country at a March 21 House Homeland Security joint subcommittee hearing.

“Simply put, this application’s users know that a [U.S. Customs and Border Patrol] CBP One appointment is their ticket into the United States,” said Rep. Clay Higgins, (R-Louis.) chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.