DHS Watchdog Highlights Flaws in the CBP One Interview Scheme
Example: OIG found seven U.S. addresses that nearly 1,700 different people had claimed as their intended destination
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 23, 2024
DHS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) — the internal watchdog overseeing the department’s activities — released a report on what I’ve dubbed the Biden-Harris administration’s “CBP One app interview scheme”. It allows 1,450 “undocumented noncitizens” per day to schedule appointments using the CBP One app, nearly all of whom are then paroled into the United States. The OIG identified significant issues with that scheme, which impact not only security but the aliens themselves — and raised even more troubling questions.
CBP One App Interview Scheme, in Brief. On January 5, 2023, the White House issued a fact sheet titled “Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Border Enforcement Actions”, which announced that:
When Title 42 eventually lifts, noncitizens located in Central and Northern Mexico seeking to enter the United States lawfully through a U.S. port of entry have access to the CBP One mobile application for scheduling an appointment to present themselves for inspection and to initiate a protection claim instead of coming directly to a port of entry to wait. This new feature will significantly reduce wait times and crowds at U.S. ports of entry and allow for safe, orderly, and humane processing.
There are many misstatements of fact in that excerpt, beginning with the claim that would-be illegal migrants would only be able to schedule appointments for interviews at the border ports of entry once “Title 42 lifted” on May 11, 2023.
https://cis.org/Arthur/DHS-Watchdog-Highlights-Flaws-CBP-One-Interview-Scheme
