The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is terminating parole protections for people who entered the country through the CBP One app, revoking legal status for nearly a million migrants who came to the U.S. during the Biden administration.
Roughly 985,000 people used the app to make appointments at a port of entry at the border, with those who entered often permitted to seek asylum and given temporary work authorization.
“The Biden Administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history. Under federal law, Secretary [Kristi] Noem — in support of the President — has full authority to revoke parole. Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect national security,” the DHS said in a statement.
The administration has begun sending email notices to affected migrants telling them to self-deport through the Trump administration’s version of the app, now called CBP Home.
Those who entered the country as part of the Uniting for Ukraine program and Afghans who entered under Operation Allies Welcome are not impacted.
The DHS previously revoked parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, who had also sought parole through the CBP One app, so long as they could also secure a U.S.-based financial sponsor. The more than 500,000 people affected by that revocation will lose their status April 24.
It separately has sought to terminate Temporary Protected Status for some 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians, but it temporarily has been barred from doing so while the matter is being litigated.
President Trump suspended the app on his first day in office, leaving thousands at the U.S.-Mexico border who had appointments stretching into February.
The Trump administration last month also said it plans to begin fining migrants $998 per day if they fail to leave after being ordered deported.
“Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self deport and leave the country now. If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The administration also said on the social platform X last month that the department plans to fine migrants between $1,000 and $5,000 if they leave the country later than they said they would, and that such individuals could face “possible imprisonment.”
Updated at 2:28 p.m. EDT
