J.D. Vance brought up the topic of the CB One application during his debate with Tim Walz. The majority of Americans were largely unaware that the federal government has been operating a special app to fast-track asylum status to migrants throughout the world.
The app was first launched in October 2020, designated as a single portal to Customer and Border Protection (CBP). However, in January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration repurposed the app to streamline the process of permitting migrants into the country. “So there’s an application called the CBP One app where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. That is not a person coming in applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years. That is the facilitation of illegal immigration,” Vance said on the debate stage.
Between June 2023 and June 2024, over 170,000 migrants accessed CBP One to quickly enter the United States. Haitians, Mexicans, and Venezuelans have been the primary users of this app. The app saw 1,450 appointments per day in June, a 50% uptick from the month prior. Anyone from any nation can simply sign up, enter America, and receive their free taxpayer-subsidized life.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has not detailed the cost of creating or operating the app, despite questions from politicians like Senator Josh Hawley. “Under your leadership, the Department is marketing a new phone app, called CBP One, that allows unauthorized migrants to reserve a time to cross the border, like making a restaurant reservation. How convenient,” wrote Senator Hawley. He continued, “I imagine there are plenty of Americans who would appreciate this level of service from their government. Your choice to spend untold sums of taxpayer money—you said you had no idea what it cost—on concierge service for illegals is baffling. It is also revealing. It demonstrates your priorities: open borders, no matter the cost to Americans; no matter the jobs lost, the wages lost, the drugs flooding our schools.”
The truth is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no budget when it comes to the migrants as they will spend everything and then some to flood America with illegal migrants. Then they turn around and say they’ve run out of funds for their own citizens who have been paying into the system their entire lives. CBP One is like an Open Table reservation app that lets absolutely anyone come to America to leech off our resources.
