{"id":1994667,"date":"2023-08-08T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-hearing-near-arizona-border-digs-into-bidens-concerning-cbp-one-app\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:44:52","slug":"gop-hearing-near-arizona-border-digs-into-bidens-concerning-cbp-one-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-hearing-near-arizona-border-digs-into-bidens-concerning-cbp-one-app\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP hearing examines Biden&#8217;s worrisome CBP One app near Arizona border."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgop-hearing-near-arizona-border-digs-into-bidens-concerning-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=1994667&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>The House Republicans Expose Exploitation of \u2063CBP One\u2062 App by Mexican Cartels<\/h2>\n<p>The House Republicans have recently brought attention to a new and concerning report regarding the exploitation of the CBP \u2063One app by Mexican cartels. This app, \u200cdeveloped by the Biden administration \u200bto streamline immigrant admission to the United States, has \u200cbecome a target \u2062for criminal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>During a congressional hearing near the\u2062 Arizona border, Rep. Andy Biggs\u200b (R-AZ) delved into the details of the \u2064Washington Examiner&#8217;s Aug. 4 investigation. He revealed that these cartels have\u200c found a way to override the app&#8217;s geofencing feature, allowing them to request appointments with U.S. customs officials from anywhere in the world. This process was originally intended to only be possible in northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Raised by House Republicans<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Biggs expressed his concerns during his opening remarks, stating, &#8220;It is just reckless\u200d disregard for law and order, and \u200c [President Joe Biden&#8217;s] implementation of <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>&#8230; have caused the crisis that \u200bwe \u200csee on the border and in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further highlighted the Washington Examiner report,\u200d stating, &#8220;Here&#8217;s one concerning\u2063 recent example that we have received. We have received\u2063 reports of criminal cartels&#8230; taking advantage of Secretary Mayorkas&#8217;s open\u2063 border policies. Cartels \u200cnow are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-hearing-near-arizona-border-digs-into-bidens-concerning-cbp-one-app\/\" title=\"GOP hearing examines Biden's worrisome CBP One app near Arizona border.\">reportedly selling virtual private network<\/a> (VPN) services to migrants&#8230; to ignore the geofencing system before they&#8217;ve reached northern Mexico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Exploitation of CBP \u200cOne App<\/h3>\n<p>The Washington Examiner conducted a review of unclassified internal CBP documents\u2063 and communications, revealing that the Mexican\u200c government has allowed immigrants entering the \u2062country from Guatemala to continue their journey to the U.S. border if they have \u200cobtained an appointment on the CBP One phone app.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican government&#8217;s National Immigration \u200cInstitute (INM)\u2064 issued an order to its immigration \u2062officials in the southern state of Chiapas, instructing them to turn away all non-Mexican \u2064citizens who do not have a CBP One \u2063app appointment. Officers have \u2063set up checkpoints and made arrests at these encounters.<\/p>\n<p>However, cartels have found a way to \u2062exploit the app and benefit\u2062 from Mexico&#8217;s policy. They are selling immigrants VPN services, which provide them with an internet connection that routes through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/community-remembers-yale-student-killed-in-conn-2\/\" title=\"Community remembers Yale student killed in Conn.\">private service<\/a>. This allows\u200d the immigrants to bypass the app&#8217;s geofencing \u2062system, making it appear\u200c as if they are in northern Mexico when they are actually elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Congress being on its annual recess break in \u200cAugust,\u200d five GOP \u2063members of\u2062 Congress attended the hearing to address these concerns. Rep. Biggs criticized Democrats for their absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>highlighted the alarming findings. The report revealed that Mexican cartels are taking advantage of the CBP One app, designed by the Biden administration to facilitate immigration entry. Rep. Biggs emphasized these concerns during the hearing held in close proximity to the Arizona border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994668,"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-1994667","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\/1994667","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=1994667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}