In an Oct. 29 National Desk segment on “Illegal Immigrant Arrivals” under President Joe Biden’s administration, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Jan Jeffcoat said immigrants using the CBP One app are also The report made misleading statements that should have been included in the count.
Earlier, on Oct. 25, Jeffcoat claimed, “We know that there are 14 million illegal immigrants who have entered the United States in the last four years,” apparently referring to border encounters and arrests. However, he noted that this figure “does not include the 1.3 million people.” “immigrants who used the Biden-Harris parole program,” at least 420,000 of whom used the CBP One app. Mark Morgan, a repeat guest and senior fellow at the extremist anti-immigrant group the Federation for American Immigration Reform, also appeared on The National Desk on Oct. 15, saying that the Biden administration would “actually make it easier to enter the country. “I used the app illegally.” Individuals who should not be allowed to enter the country will be able to do so. ”
Mr. Sinclair’s attempt to link the use of the CBP One app to an increase in illegal immigration is not based in reality.
Since its release in 2020, the CBP One app has served as a tool for the Department of Homeland Security to identify and track asylum seekers and enable them to apply for humanitarian parole. The American Immigration Council says the app is used not only for “immigrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum at a port of entry,” but also for “Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals seeking to secure travel authorization.” It is explained that it is for.
The app allows “noncitizens without proper immigration documents seeking to travel to the United States through certain Southwest Border Land Ports of Entry (POE) to You can submit information through the module. Despite this, only a small percentage of users have been admitted to the U.S. as asylum seekers. More than 64 million applications have been submitted through the app; As of August 2024, only 813,000 people were able to successfully schedule reservations offered by Google.
NBC News reported that the app is helping people at the border, quoting Texas pastor Abraham Barberi, who claimed the app has “contributed to a decline” in illegal immigration. “I think people are now thinking, ‘I don’t need to go to the border, I don’t need to cross the river illegally,'” Barberi said. Ability to use the CBP One app to help “reduce illegal immigration from Haiti.”
