A joint U.S. House subcommittee hearing scheduled Thursday will examine Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ CBP One App being used “to mass-parole hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens into the United States.”
Two U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security subcommittees, Border Security and Enforcement, and Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability, will hold the hearing, chaired by Reps. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, and Dan Bishop, R-North Carolina, respectively.
The CBP One App was launched on Oct. 28, 2020, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for commercial purposes to facilitate the efficient movement of commercial goods into the U.S. Mayorkas repurposed it in January 2023 and subsequently revised it in May and November 2023 to allow 1,000 daily appointments for foreign nationals to obtain entry into the U.S.
“Noncitizens located in Central or Northern Mexico who seek to travel to the United States” are instructed to use the app “to submit information in advance and schedule an appointment to present themselves at Southwest Border land ports of entry,” CBP explains. The ports are Nogales, Arizona; Brownsville, Eagle Pass, Hidalgo, Laredo, and El Paso, Texas; and Calexico and San Ysidro, California.
