Trump Must Assess Damage Done by Biden’s ‘CBP One’ Scheme on Security at Border Ports
Smugglers and traffickers almost definitely exploited it to move drugs, contraband, terrorists, and criminals into the United States
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 10, 2025
With the Trump administration in control of DHS, it’s time for the American people to find out how the last administration’s abuse of the CBP One app, which allowed 1,450 illegal migrants per day to access to schedule “interviews” at the Southwest border ports, impacted the ability of CBP officers to prevent drugs, contraband, terrorists, and criminals from entering into the United States. Prepare to be shocked at how adversely this program affected public safety and our national security.
The Role of CBP at the Ports of Entry. For much of the last four years, the media was almost exclusively focused on the Southwest border activities of just one component in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Border Patrol.
“Border security” under Biden was defined for most by how many illegal migrants Border Patrol agents apprehended. When that apprehension number rose to hundreds of thousands per month, the argument went, the border was insecure. When it fell, President Biden’s supporters claimed, the White House had the situation under control.
That analysis, however, ignored the critical role CBP officers in the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the ports of entry play in our national security.
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