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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/20/trump-border-cbp-one-migrants/
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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/20/trump-border-cbp-one-migrants/
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“Existing appointments are no longer valid,” it said.
One woman sat down and began to weep beneath a fleece blanket. Another leaned against a pole, buried her face in her gloved hands and cried.
As Trump took office promising to immediately halt “all illegal entry” to the country, an increasingly desperate scene played out immediately across the border from El Paso in the city of Juárez, Mexico.