Hundreds of thousands of migrants lost scheduled appointments after CBP One app was disabled, creating uncertainty at the US-Mexico border.

President Donald Trump has signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s promises to beef up security at the southern border with Mexico began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration and marking another wild swing in White House policy on the divisive issue.

Eduard Alvarado, a migrant from Colombia waiting at the El Chaparral Port of Entry in Tijuana, described the sudden cancellation as "like a bucket of cold water." "We are here without money ...

The initial blow came with the end of CBP One, stranding thousands of asylum seekers with and without appointments

The four families came from Peru and Colombia. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego ... for asylum seekers to cross and wait for agents. And in Tijuana at the PedWest pedestrian port of entry, asylum ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the CBP One app that worked as recently as that morning would no longer be used to admit migrants. Tens of thousands of appointments were canceled.

Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.

Migrants in Mexico who were hoping to come to the U.S. are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality after President Donald Trump began cracking down on border security.

Las cuatro familias son originarias de Perú y Colombia. (Ana Ramírez / The San ... de asilo que cruzan y esperan a los agentes. Y en Tijuana, en el puerto peatonal PedWest, los solicitantes ...

CBP One is effectively a lottery system that give appointments to 1,450 people a day at one of eight border crossings. People enter the U.S. on immigration “parole,” a presidential authority that former President Joe Biden used more than any other president since it was introduced in 1952.