Migrants stranded in Mexico as appointments to enter US cancelled

They came from each astir the world, including Haiti and Venezuela, pulling tiny rolling suitcases crammed with covering and stuffed animals to inhabit their children.

They clutched phones showing that aft months of waiting, they yet had appointments to legally participate the United States.

But extracurricular a bid of bluish Mexico borderline crossings, anticipation and excitement evaporated into despair and disbelief moments aft President Donald Trump took office.

On Monday, the US Customs and Border Protection bureau announced that the CBP One app, which worked arsenic precocious arsenic that morning, would nary longer beryllium utilized to admit migrants aft facilitating introduction for astir 1 cardinal radical since January 2023.

Applicants were told that tens of thousands of appointments that were scheduled into February were cancelled.

Many migrant shelters successful Mexico are present occupied mostly by radical who tapped their phones daily, hoping for an appointment. US Customs and Border Protection said astir 280,000 radical effort regular for the 1,450 slots.

The demise of CBP One volition beryllium coupled with the instrumentality of the “remain successful Mexico” policy, a remnant of Trump’s archetypal word that forced astir 70,000 asylum seekers to hold successful Mexico for hearings successful US migration courts.