SAN DIEGO — Migrants waiting to enter the US using former Joe Biden’s CBP One app broke down in tears after their appointments were canceled the moment President Trump took office Monday – just the first of the sweeping border actions the new administration prepared for the first day.

Several migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, near the U.S. border cried in frustration as their CBP One app appointments were canceled after Donald Trump took office. Venezuelan migrant Jhony Flores says it felt unfair that an opportunity for legal passage was taken away after people spent so much time waiting in Mexico.

The CBP One app has been highly popular, functioning as an online lottery system that grants appointments to 1,450 people daily at eight border crossings. These individuals enter the U.S. under immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden has exercised more frequently than any other president since its creation in 1952.

Migrants who waited months to cross the U.S. border with Mexico learned their CBP One appointments had been canceled moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.

Four tents are being erected in what’s known as El Punto in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso to temporarily house Mexican migrants deported from the U.S. under the Trump administration.

The temporary shelters in Ciudad Juarez will have the capacity to house thousands of people and should be ready in a matter of days, said municipal

Since CBP One app was fully rolled out in January 2023, more than half a million immigrants have been admitted into the United States.

This Venezuelan teacher obtained a date to request asylum in the US after a year of waiting in Mexico. Her children are already on American soil, but she worries the president-elect could cancel the p

The CBP One app that worked as recently as that morning would no longer be used to admit migrants after facilitating entry for nearly 1 million people since January 2023.

The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous protocols that has left many concerned migrants in limbo.

The US decision to cancel appointments through the CBP One programme has left migrants stranded on Mexico's northern border, intensifying a humanitarian and logistical crisis. Shelters such as El Buen Samaritano in Ciudad Juárez are preparing for an influx of rejected or deported migrants,