US scraps migrant status under Biden CBP One app, plans $998 daily fines

Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg News on Apr 8, 2025

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is revoking legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. through a Biden-era app called CBP One and signaling plans to impose daily fines of $998 on people with deportation orders who don’t leave the country.

The Department of Homeland Security sent formal email notifications to people covered by CBP One about the end of their legal protection, known as parole. CBP One was used by hundreds of thousands of migrants to request legal entry under former President Joe Biden.

“Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect national security,” a senior DHS spokesperson said in a statement.

The Trump administration is also planning to wield previously announced $998 daily fines against anyone in the country who doesn’t comply with a deportation order, DHS said. The government will apply the fines retroactively for as long as five years and attempt to seize the assets of people who don’t pay, Reuters reported, citing documents and a senior administration official.

DHS last month launched the CBP Home app, an overhaul of CBP One, which was used by the Biden administration to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants to make appointments to request entry at a legal border crossing. President Donald Trump shut down CBP One when he returned to the White House in January, canceling all pending appointments for asylum seekers.

The administration is telling CBP One users to self-deport through the new app or face being permanently barred from reentry.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, reiterated the administration’s warnings to migrants to leave on their own.

“If you are in this country illegally go home. Come back the right way. Do what’s right. Go home,” Homan said at a border-security conference in Phoenix on Tuesday. If migrants fail to register with U.S. authorities, “we will look for you. We will prosecute you.”

The administration has already moved to remove the legal status of large numbers of foreigners living, working and studying in the U.S., including those with protections on humanitarian grounds and international students at colleges across the country.

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(With assistance from Alicia A. Caldwell.)

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