Migrants who entered the U.S. via CBP One app should leave 'immediately,' DHS says

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Source: NPR

April 8, 2025 4:27 PM ET


Y. was working her regular shift at a California Walmart on Monday when she got a notification on her phone. It was an email from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "It is time for you to leave the United States," the email began. "DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole immediately."

Y., a Venezuelan woman who asked NPR to use the initial of her first name because of her immigration status, panicked. "I got nervous, desperate," she told NPR in Spanish. "Even though I came in through a CBP One appointment, I don't feel safe."

The Trump administration is telling some migrants who entered the U.S. using the CBP One mobile app to leave immediately, as part of a broader push to revoke temporary legal status for migrants who entered during the Biden administration under a legal authority known as humanitarian parole.

Starting in January of 2023, the CBP One allowed migrants to schedule appointments at legal ports of entry instead of crossing the border illegally to seek asylum. It was a central part of the Biden administration's strategy to relieve pressure at the border by creating temporary legal pathways under an authority known as humanitarian parole. The Trump administration quickly dismantled that policy, and is now urging migrants who benefited from it to leave immediately.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58984/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border

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1. Can't think of anything good that will happen from mass expulsions like this. In addition to unfortunate

individual upheaval such as described in the OP...we aren't hearing enough about the economic and social disruptions their absence will cause. We are about to find out and it won't be pretty. Unlike any time I've lived through (and I'm pretty gray) and the off-ramp is not in sight.