The wait time for asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. through the CBP One app is now up to nine months. That’s according to a new report from the University of Texas’ Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Migrants now vie for one of a fixed 1,450 appointments available borderwide everyday — including about 100 at the Nogales Port of Entry. Report authors say more than 765,000 people have scheduled CBP One appointments since January 2023.
Those trying to secure one in Nogales now are waiting up to eight months, according to the report. A waitlist set up by Sonoran officials earlier was dissolved in June — when the Biden administration’s new asylum restrictions took hold.
The report comes just after U.S. officials reported the lowest monthly border apprehensions in four years in July. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities encountered more migrants that month than their U.S. counterparts for the first time, according to an analysis by the Washington Office on Latin America.
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That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941. -
Prosecutors and investigators with the Pinal County Attorney’s Office are now, at times, working directly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
