Trump promises to end CBP One App if elected, calls it 'phone App for smuggling illegals'

During his first rally after last Tuesday's debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump reiterated that, if he's elected in November's elections, he will execute large-scale deportations of migrants, beginning in Ohio and Colorado.

"We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country," he told reporters during a news conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. "And we're going to start with Springfield and Aurora." He also added that he's going to bring those migrants "back to Venezuela," although most of the migrants in Springfield are Haitian.

On Sunday, before his attempted assassination, he doubled down on his claims on a post he shared on both his Truth Social account and his X account, with the added promise of terminating the CBP One App which he claims is only used "for smuggling illegals":

The CBP One App is, according to the CBP's website, "a mobile application that serves as a single portal to a variety of CBP services." The site also says that the App is "part of CBP's comprehensive effort to improve the security of our nation's borders while enhancing legitimate travel and trade" and "provides increased accessibility and transparency to some of CBP's most utilized services."

Trump is not the only Republican who has criticized the App. A few days ago, Senator Ted Cruz alleged that Kamala Harris is 'actively encouraging' illegal immigration with help from Mexico and that the App's recent expansion to southern Mexico states is a move by the administration to "make it even easier for illegal aliens" to come through the border.

Republicans are not the only ones who have questioned the CBP One App either, although other critics have done so for very different reasons. Humanitarian groups recently reported that the App is being used by cartels to target migrants. Since only around 1,450 CBP One appointments are issued each day, the system has a huge backlog, forcing many immigrants to wait months at the border, exposing them to kidnappings and extorsions,

Another critique of the App came from a report by an internal watchdog within the Department of Homeland Security, which pointed out several issues, including the fact that it cannot properly check the information of migrants, lacks a system to regularly analyze data from the app across different points of entry and that it often crashes, gives error messages, and has a language barrier that makes it hard for non-citizens to use.