CBP One App closed

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Many immigrants, including Haitians & Venezuelas, among others, used Biden's CBP One App to schedule appointments at the border for entry into the US.
I am familiar with 4 people who gained entry via the App.
Many thousands may be now be stranded in Mexico having exhausted their funds and are out of luck for having waited too long.
And if they didn't see that coming they aren't bright.
So if anyone has Dominican, Venezuelan or Haitian friends who are in Mexico waiting for CBP One I'm curious to find out what they wind up doing now.
 
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Please keep the posts related to Dominicans who are or maybe affected by this. It also looks like any pending appointments have been cancelled.
 
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Please keep the posts related to Dominicans who are or maybe affected by this. It also looks like any pending appointments have been cancelled.

The numbers of Dominicans currently in Mexico is likely fairly small as the mass migration that led many to Guatemala and north utilizing the beast train was effectively halted by Guatemala when they instituted a visa requirement for Dominicans.

The much larger issue is the Executive Order to be signed by President Trump this evening declaring a National Emergency at the border and another invoking sweeping deportation measures against the tens of thousands of illegal Dominicans and millions of others.

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Many immigrants, including Haitians & Venezuelas, among others, used Biden's CBP One App to schedule appointments at the border for entry into the US.
I am familiar with 4 people who gained entry via the App.
Many thousands may be now be stranded in Mexico having exhausted their funds and are out of luck for having waited too long.
And if they didn't see that coming they aren't bright.
So if anyone has Dominican, Venezuelan or Haitian friends who are in Mexico waiting for CBP One I'm curious to find out what they wind up doing now.
I can't speak for anyone but Haitians, but there are many Haitians working if not thriving in Mexico. I truly think that unless they have a STEM type degree, Haitians are better off in Mexico that the USA.
 

chico bill

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The numbers of Dominicans currently in Mexico is likely fairly small as the mass migration that led many to Guatemala and north utilizing the beast train was effectively halted by Guatemala when they instituted a visa requirement for Dominicans.

The much larger issue is the Executive Order to be signed by President Trump this evening declaring a National Emergency at the border and another invoking sweeping deportation measures against the tens of thousands of illegal Dominicans and millions of others.

Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
Deportations will start with gang members, welfare recipients and those who have committed crime in the US. If they are working legitimately with social security numbers and haven't violated laws they should be safe.
If Haitians are deported they may well wind up immediately leaving Haiti for DR
 

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Please keep the posts related to Dominicans who are or maybe affected by this. It also looks like any pending appointments have been cancelled.
The 4 I know who entered via the CBP App all were born in DR and held Dominican passports.
 

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Shutting down the CBP One app is one thing...cancelling all pending appointments obtained via the app is another. Those with appointments are seeking to enter the US legally, is that a bad thing? An appointment does not mean automatic approval. Seems like cancelling appointments after a certain cut-off date, perhaps 1 March, would have been more reasonable.,
 
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Shutting down the CBP One app is one thing...cancelling all pending appointments obtained via the app is another. Those with appointments are seeking to enter the US legally, is that a bad thing? An appointment does not mean automatic approval. Seems like cancelling appointments after a certain cut-off date, perhaps 1 March, would have been more reasonable.,
Almost all appointments under Biden were granted entry with no police background checks other than passports.
There must be 80,000 pending appointments.
They waited too long. I applaud them for trying via a once legal app, instead of swimming across the border. But the app is closed and the abuse of it was one reason for political change.
Now those who thought they were getting appointments should go home, wait for the smoke to settle, and let the US have a break from Latino Immigration.
There are plenty of other legal immigration applications from around the world that were stalled for far too long.
For those in the US under CBP One they should go to their hearing dates with a judge and if they are clean of wrong doing, self supporting and offering something now of value they should be allowed to stay unless they commit a crime, can't self-sustain or they reach a point of being allowed permanent residence.
I feel the same way about Haitians in DR. Close the DR border now, but allow those who are here & law abiding and working to stay and give them hearings to receive IDs - at least you could track them. Maybe have them post a $500-$1,000 bond for an initial card, then $200 for annual renewals with good conduct letters like we have to provide for cedulas

The irony in all of this is Hispanics are not an automatic vote for liberals once they start paying taxes. They aren't big on abortion, transgenderism or being taxed to the limits of their livelihood
 

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Only legal immigrants can get a social security number, so they are safe. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/p...ibility-for-social-security-numbers-benefits/
All CBP One applicants who used immigration attorneys for SS Applications after CBP One entry were granted SS numbers. It cost around $1,200 for the attorneys to process their applications. I know because I paid for an attorney for one.

The Dominican mother, with her teen daughter had meager savings, but got a driver's license & a job @$20/hour on a swing shift and she and her daughter lived at first with her brother, already married to an American woman (who helped them with legal applications),
Later they moved into a rat infested $400/month bedroom within a flop house with shared filthy toilets along with African Immigrants from Mali for another 6 months, until she saved enough for her own one bedroom meager apartment (without rats).
After 6 months on the job she and her daughter got health insurance for which they deduct nearly $600/mo from her pay. She has collected no government money
And she owns a well used Nissan Sentra and as of yesterday her daughter got a learner's driving permit. They have a February appoint before an immigration court, so we will see what happens
 
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Shutting down the CBP One app is one thing...cancelling all pending appointments obtained via the app is another. Those with appointments are seeking to enter the US legally, is that a bad thing? An appointment does not mean automatic approval. Seems like cancelling appointments after a certain cut-off date, perhaps 1 March, would have been more reasonable.,
That system was a joke perpetrated on the American public that somehow those entering were all seeking asylum AND would attend their hearing two years or later from now.

What the app did was allow people to circumvent US immigration law...............and a new sheriff has said no mas.

There is, and always has been, a process to enter legally...................this app was a slap in the face to those who stood in line and waited their turn..............and the voters spoke loud and clear about that and so many other things

Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
 

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Shut er' down.

Maybe figure out a way to streamline the legal process.
100% agree.
I worked with a Mexican Engineer in Puerto Rico.
He is honest hard working, learned English perfectly (well almost) and has managed to buy two houses in PR since 2000 and save a good portion of money.
He has excellent skills in his particular field, no criminal record and currently is sponsored by an American Company licensed in Puerto Rico, paying local PR taxes plus US Social Security.
He has had his legal application in for 20+ years and to date he still has not been processed. So the process now is apply for immigration and wait till you are dead or sneak across the border and ask for forgiveness.
It's a matter of expediting legal immigration.
Qualified applicants should wait no more than 5 years for their first interview. Unqualified (those without money, don't speak enough basic English to pass a simple test, don't have employment sponsors or don't have at least $10K in savings to start out) should be kept waiting until they do have it.
 

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100% agree.
I worked with a Mexican Engineer in Puerto Rico.
He is honest hard working, learned English perfectly (well almost) and has managed to buy two houses in PR since 2000 and save a good portion of money.
He has excellent skills in his particular field, no criminal record and currently is sponsored by an American Company licensed in Puerto Rico, paying local PR taxes plus US Social Security.
He has had his legal application in for 20+ years and to date he still has not been processed. So the process now is apply for immigration and wait till you are dead or sneak across the border and ask for forgiveness.
It's a matter of expediting legal immigration.
Qualified applicants should wait no more than 5 years for their first interview. Unqualified (those without money, don't speak enough basic English to pass a simple test, don't have employment sponsors or don't have at least $10K in savings to start out) should be kept waiting until they do have it.
your friend, from Mexico, who you described as learned; couldn't figure out that is easier to cross the Rio Grande, than fly all the way to the "PR" and then try to get to the mainland; and they pay property taxes and sales taxes which are more like fees, THEY PAY NO FEDERAL PERSONAL INCOME TAX
 
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your friend, from Mexico, who you described as learned; couldn't figure out that is easier to cross the Rio Grande, than fly all the way to the "PR" and then try to get to the mainland; and they pay property taxes and sales taxes which are more like fees, THEY PAY NO FEDERAL PERSONAL INCOME TAX
He came to PR as a sponsored employee and still is.
He wants to do things right. Why after having applied for immigration to the US and waiting 20 years would he decide to sneak across a border and jepordise what he has built for himself.
His company has a visa for him and he can visit the US anytime. His company now by the way is one of the oldest and largest in the US.
So he's not going to blow his 6 figure income by violating a border.
 
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