The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion entitled “Parole and the CBP One App: Fact and Fiction” on Wednesday, August 23, at 1:00 p.m. EDT at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237. Speakers will examine the legality of the CBP One App scheme, the number of entries, legal challenges, and the myths put forth about it.

Mark Morgan, former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will join Center for Immigration Studies experts to discuss how the Biden administration took the CBP One smartphone app – a tool originally designed to smooth legal cross-border traffic – and turned it into a means of facilitating illegal immigration.

Participants will analyze conflicting arguments advanced in support of the program:

• Has the app incentivized more illegal immigration or has it reduced the number of illegal entries?
• Has the app cut smugglers and cartels out of the migrant-smuggling business or are migrants still in danger?
• Is an inadmissible alien’s passage through a lawful port of entry just as illegal as crossing between the ports of entry?

 
Date:              Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Location:       Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237
45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515

Participants:
Mark Morgan, Visiting Fellow, Border Security and Immigration Center, Heritage Foundation
Former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, former Acting Director of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, Center for Immigration Studies
Former Immigration Judge, former Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, and former Acting Chief of the INS National Security Law Division.
Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies