A new Biden administration rule requires migrants to make an appointment on a government-run smartphone app before approaching the border — but few migrants have a device for the app.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — On a June afternoon when temperatures climbed near 100 degrees Fahrenheit, Alejandra Pena gently tipped a jug of water into her son's mouth. Like other children in the migrant camp, a mile-long stretch of tents along the banks of the river separating Mexico from the United States, the toddler had diarrhea. Pena worried the boy was dehydrated.
Officials said the regulation and other Biden immigration policies are reducing illegal border crossings that have hit record highs in recent years. A senior Biden administration official told Reuters the policy was working. Government figures show the number of migrants caught crossing illegally has dropped by 69 percent in one month.
Pena said she wants to follow the rules. But her partner's phone was stolen in Colombia; the kids' tablet was sold in Costa Rica and they lost their last smart device in a robbery in Guatemala. Pena hopes to buy a smartphone, but the family has so little money that they are begging on the street just to eat, she said.
But he said he was worried that the CBP One app left some migrants waiting. He said even more spots would help. "That would allow us to control the flow in a more normal way so that it doesn't overwhelm us," he said. Humanitarian organizations say at times the camp has grown bigger under Biden than during the Trump years.
Asylum division chief John Lafferty told the town hall that the administration aims to process migrants for release or deportation within one or two weeks and cut the time migrants have to consult with a lawyer from 48 hours to 24 hours. Biden's rule was as harmful as Trump's, the ACLU argued, adding: "It will effectively eliminate asylum for nearly all non-Mexican asylum seekers who enter between designated ports of entry, and even for those who present at a port without first securing an appointment."
On May 24, Anariba had a phone interview with an asylum officer through an interpreter, according to interviews with Anariba in detention, his attorney and case documents.
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