{"id":1990506,"date":"2023-08-04T03:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-cartels-seize-control-of-us-governments-cbp-one-app\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T03:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:08:16","slug":"mexican-cartels-seize-control-of-us-governments-cbp-one-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-cartels-seize-control-of-us-governments-cbp-one-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican cartels take over US CBP One app."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexican-cartels-seize-control-of-us-governments-cbp-one-app%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Cartels Exploit Vulnerabilities in U.S. Government&#8217;s CBP One App<\/h2>\n<h3>The Mexican government is \u200callowing immigrants\u2064 from Guatemala to continue their journey to the U.S. border if they have obtained an appointment\u200d on the \u200bCBP One app, according \u2063to the Washington Examiner.<\/h3>\n<p>While this move \u2062may seem beneficial\u200b for the United States, it has inadvertently provided\u2063 an opportunity for Mexican cartels\u2063 to exploit\u2064 the \u200dapp&#8217;s security. These \u200dcartels have found a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-cartels-seize-control-of-us-governments-cbp-one-app\/\" title=\"Mexican cartels take over US CBP One app.\">request unlimited appointments<\/a> for individuals \u200cworldwide, surpassing\u2062 the app&#8217;s intended &#8220;northern\u200b Mexico&#8221; geofence.<\/p>\n<p>Former acting Department of \u200bHomeland Security\u2064 secretary, Chad Wolf, expressed concern over the administration&#8217;s\u200c lack of understanding regarding the \u2062lengths cartels will\u2062 go to exploit these &#8220;legal pathways.&#8221; He stated, &#8220;As the administration continues to put \u2063these &#8216;legal pathways&#8217; into place, that&#8217;s music to the cartel&#8217;s\u200d ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An investigation \u2063revealed that the Mexican government&#8217;s National Immigration Institute ordered immigration officials to turn away non-Mexican citizens without a CBP One app appointment. Cartels have\u2063 taken \u2064advantage of this policy by overpowering \u200cthe app&#8217;s security and profiting from\u200c immigrants who wish to enter Mexico. Once immigrants arrive \u2062at the Guatemala-Mexico \u200cborder or \u200bin Chiapas, the INM allows\u2064 them to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Cartels have been selling immigrants a service\u200d that provides\u2063 them\u2063 with\u200d a VPN to override the app&#8217;s server, making it impossible for the app to detect their location. This has allowed cartels to\u200b cash in\u200d on the situation, potentially with kickbacks to the Mexican government.<\/p>\n<p>Smugglers openly advertise their VPN services in southern Mexico and on social media, \u2063targeting Haitians, \u200bCubans, and Hondurans. The emergence of these VPNs \u2062may be a contributing factor to \u200dthe recent increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-revives-catch-and-release-to-avoid-housing-illegal-immigrants-amid-border-surge\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Revives \u2018Catch-And-Release\u2019 To Avoid Housing Illegal Immigrants Amid Border Surge\">border encounters<\/a> by U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u2062 the Biden administration introduced the CBP One app, immigrants south of Mexico \u200dCity had no legal means to enter the U.S. if they \u200ccrossed illegally. However, \u200dthe app&#8217;s expansion of\u2062 appointment time slots in late spring disrupted the cartels&#8217; operations and\u2063 reduced \u2063their profits.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns expressed by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and CBP Senior Official Performing\u200b the \u2062Duties of\u200c Commissioner Troy Miller, no plan has been put \u2063forth to combat this issue. CBP \u200bhas made updates to the app to enhance\u200c security, but it remains vulnerable to exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise&#8217;s office emphasized the need for \u2064legislative action to address the\u200c consequences of the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-joe-bidens-foreign-policy-reset-will-be-a-disaster\/\" title=\"Why Joe Biden\u2019s Foreign Policy \u2018Reset\u2019 Will Be A Disaster\">open border policies<\/a>. They called for the passage of the Secure the\u2063 Border Act, which aims to crack \u200ddown on cartels \u2064and prevent the abuse of the \u2064CBP One app.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s INM did not provide a comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican government is permitting immigrants from Guatemala to proceed to the US border if they have a scheduled appointment on the CBP One app. This decision, discovered by the Washington Examiner, appears to benefit the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1990507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}