(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Journalist Matt Taibbi has filed a libel lawsuit against Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., for allegedly falsely accusing him of being a “serial sexual harasser.” He is demanding $10 million for the “demonstrably false claims.”
Kamlager-Dove made the puzzling accusations during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on April 1 about censorship collusion between the Biden administration and social media companies.
She alleged Republicans were “elevating a serial sexual harasser” by inviting Taibbi to testify about his censorship research. She doubled down on these accusations on X, stating: “After this, Republicans gave Matt Taibbi time to defend himself. It’s telling that he didn’t.”
At the hearing, the congresswoman produced two articles by the Chicago Reader and The Washington Post that report about Taibbi’s satirical and comedic reporting from when he ran an English parody site called eXile.
After this, Republicans gave Matt Taibbi time to defend himself.
— Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (@RepKamlagerDove) April 1, 2025
Neither article cited any instances of women accusing Taibbi of sexual harassment, prompting him to file a federal lawsuit in New Jersey.
“Rep. Kamlager-Dove, no woman has ever accused me of engaging in sexual harrassment [sic] once, let alone serially. See you in court. Please do not evade service,” Taibbi wrote in his Racket newsletter.
In the lawsuit, Taibbi’s attorneys accuse the congresswoman of making “demonstrably false” remarks with actual malice.
They added, “The allegations echo prior false claims that have been the subject of legal action and multiple public corrections, of which Defendant was undoubtedly aware, evidencing her actual malice.”
There is not much a person can say to a member of Congress hiding behind the speech and debate clause of the Constitution. I can however respond to a member arrogant enough to repeat defamatory claims on social media. See below for the $10 million libel lawsuit filed today.… https://t.co/1B58zjPSyb
The congresswoman has not addressed the lawsuit publicly.
Taibbi was one of the journalists who pulled back the curtains on the Twitter Files—a trove of documents and internal communications between X (then known as Twitter) and the federal government.
The files revealed a well-oiled censorship machine in which the Biden administration pressured Twitter to censor posts that did not align with its approved narrative on COVID-19 and other issues.
Taibbi was invited to testify about his findings before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee when Kamlager-Dove made her claims.
Biden’s censorship operation, however, was far more sweeping than Taibbi’s revelations alone. In a separate hearing, fellow journalist Benjamin Weingarten detailed how the Biden administration launched 57 censorship initiatives across multiple federal agencies, citing a bombshell report by the Media Research Center.
(Joshua D Glawson, Money Metals News Service) The Money Metals quarterly bar chart race on the evolution of global international reserves is out. Recently, gold overtook the euro, and soon will be challenging the dollar!
In the video by world-renowned gold analyst at Money Metals, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, we explore world reserve currencies from 1950 to 2024.
Such currencies in this comprehensive analysis include gold, the US dollar, British sterling, the Deutsche mark, the French franc, the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen, and “other FX” (e.g., the Swiss franc).
The race is off… and in 1950, the main reserve currency around the world was gold.
From the beginning of that year, gold made up 72.41% of all central bank reserves. Sterling was the second highest at 15.79%, and USD was third at 9.01% of reserve currencies. The remaining 2.79% was held in other foreign exchange currencies.
In 1965, the U.S. removed silver from its currency, while simultaneously pressing for a full-scale war with Vietnam. Additionally, government overspending, like the “Great Society” social programs, pushed the government to create more currency than it had in gold, leading to serious inflation pressures.
Such measures prompted West Germany, France, and England to start turning in their dollars for gold, much of which they repatriated.
This led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods gold standard by 1971, but by then, the U.S. dollar had become dominant, comprising about 45% of all reserves, while gold was closer to 39%.
On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of USD for gold, de facto ending the Bretton Woods System and the gold standard for international purposes.
This would become known as The Nixon Shock and it persuaded countries around the world to consider holding more gold rather than USD. By the end of 1972, gold would quickly replace USD as the leading reserve currency and was priced at $38 per troy ounce from the previous $35 per troy ounce.
In February 1973, the price of gold was fixed at $42.22 per troy ounce for government purposes, while the free market price had already started rising sharply since around 1972, averaging $97 per troy ounce by 1973. The currency race video by Jan Nieuwenhuijs highlights the free market price.
Although the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement ended in 1971, it took until March of 1973 for most world currencies to no longer peg their currencies to USD. This led to major currencies to float while the gold price was then set to the free market price (various policies between 1968 and 1973 allowed for the gold price to float freely) as opposed to being arbitrarily fixed at USD $42.22.
In 1974, the U.S. made a major move toward what would be known as the “petrodollar” by making a deal with Saudi Arabia that specified all oil would be sold in USD.
This move, in conjunction with US oil embargoes set in 1973, would not immediately lead the USD back to the number one spot, but it certainly played a role in the USD’s long-term gains.
In the late 1970s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) officially announced the demonetization of gold and instead called it a commodity.
This did not mean that gold was no longer valued by central banks as a reserve currency or form of sound money, rather it meant gold was no longer the official basis for international monetary transactions under IMF rules.
As a side note, from April 5, 1933, to January 1, 1975, it was illegal for private Americans to hold gold as an investment or to protect against USD monetary inflation.
By 1976, the new U.S. petrodollar became the leading reserve currency, and according to Jan Nieuwenhuijs, this was likely a coercive move against the free market gold price. The petrodollar was supported by OPEC, the oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia since they were trading oil with USD and then recycling the proceeds into U.S. Treasury Bonds for greater gains.
While all of this was taking place, the U.S. was still printing more currency than it should have, causing inflation to spike as high as 6.5% in 1977 and 7.6% in 1978.
Loose monetary policies at the Federal Reserve, an increase in energy costs, and a decline in the faith and subsequent value of USD fiat currency pressured countries and global private sectors, including Americans, to start buying more gold rather than holding on to their U.S. dollars.
In 1978, gold was back at the head of the race, leading in first place as the world reserve currency. Gold would remain as the premier world reserve currency for the next 11-12 years, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989.
As there were not many alternative liquid currencies competing in the world market, by 1990, USD would reclaim the first-place position of world reserve currencies.
In 1999, the euro came into existence, effectively challenging gold, but not yet a challenge to USD. The full effect took until around 2002, and there was a merger between the Deutsche Mark and the French Franc.
Natural and artificial confidence in the European market led the euro to take second place, driving gold to third. The euro remained in second place until around 2022 or 2023 when gold quickly reclaimed that spot.
As of the end of 2024, USD has remained as the number one reserve currency in central banks around the world at 45.55%, with gold firmly in second place at 21.20%, the euro in third place at 15.63%, and all other currencies making up the remaining 17.62%.
With the gold price now reaching the highest levels ever seen, inflation on the rise, and national and international faith in the US dollar faltering, America is in the process of jeopardizing its position as the leader in the world currency reserve race.
Many economists and investors are speculating that gold will soon reclaim its historical position as the number one spot in the race for leadership as the reserve currency around the world.
Stay tuned.
Joshua D. Glawson is Content Manager for Money Metals and is writer on such topics as politics, economics, philosophy, finance, and personal development. He has a Bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of California Irvine.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly released letter shows former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, lobbying the U.S. ambassador to Italy to intervene in foreign business dealings on behalf of Burisma—a potential violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Hunter sent the June 2016 letter to Ambassador John R. Phillips, just months after Hunter visited Rome with his father, who was then vice president.
In it, Hunter personally sought “support and guidance” from Phillips to help Burisma navigate regulatory roadblocks in Tuscany.
At the time, Hunter had no official business role, solely using his father’s power in what Republicans have long decried as an influence-peddling scheme.
“It was great seeing you in Rome recently,” Hunter began the letter, as reported first by the liberal New York Times. Hunter had traveled to Italy at least twice with Joe Biden, staying at the ambassador’s taxpayer-funded mansion.
Phillips rushed to Hunter’s defense in remarks to The Times—which for years refused the Biden scandals—saying he did not see the letter as Hunter using his father to help Burisma.
For his part, an attorney for Hunter claimed the letter was a “proper request, which was no different that [sic] hundreds of similar requests for introductions that businesses make to ambassadors every year.”
Despite attempts to dismiss the letter’s significance, the Biden administration fought for years to refuse its release. Then, President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025.
In the letter, Hunter wrote that Burisma was “experiencing certain difficulties obtaining authorizations that are issued by regional authorities” to operate in Tuscany. He specifically requested a meeting with then-Tuscany President Enrico Rossi.
“This would be a wonderful opportunity to introduce geothermal projects led by Burisma Group, to highlight their social and economic benefits for local communities and develop a common action plan that would lead to further development of the Tuscany Region,” Hunter added.
In response to Hunter, Phillips said he had a “good working relationship” with Rossi and tasked a Commerce Department official at the embassy “to be the point of contact, see where our interests may overlap, and facilitate contact with Mr. Rossi.”
According to earlier reporting by The Times, that Commerce official expressed concerns about the request, writing in an internal communication, “I want to be careful about promising too much.”
The official added, “This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the D.O.C. Advocacy Center.”
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) President Donald Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday promoting the deregulation and expansion of the “beautiful, clean coal” industry in the U.S.
The first order White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf said might be “one of the most significant executive orders” the president has issued so far.
“This directs all departments and agencies of the federal government to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry. This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new coal projects on federal land, and it’s going to accelerate all permitting and funding for new coal projects,” Scharf said.
The other executive orders attempt to prevent some Biden-era policies from going into effect that would have caused the shuttering of dozens of American coal plants; support policies promoting the continued incorporation of coal and fossil-fuel forms of energy into the grid; and direct the Department of Justice to investigate state policies that may illegally or unconstitutionally “[discriminate] against coal” and “secure sources of energy.”
The White House hosted a large group of coal miners, members of Congress, administration officials and others Tuesday afternoon to commemorate the “Unleashing American Energy” signing event.
“This is a very important day to me because we’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best – certainly the best in terms of power, real power,” Trump said.
Trump said he was “honored” to be signing the orders in defense of the coal industry and that the administration was “ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all.”
Trump also said his administration was working on something unique that would guarantee the coal industry would not be upended by changes in administrations, based on an idea he had “about 15 minutes” before the event.
“We’re going to give a guarantee that… if somebody comes in, they can’t change it at a whim. They’re gonna have to go through hell to close you up,” he said to the coal miners.
Under the new administration, the department of the interior has approved the expansion of the Spring Creek Mine in Montana, and Trump promised there would be more coal ventures in Alabama, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and other states.
“I think we’re gonna look back with great pride at what we’ve done today – not just in putting people to work but at really reawakening our country,” Trump said.
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump remains willing to make deals with other nations, but only if doing so will help American workers and address U.S. trade deficits.
“America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us and President Trump knows this,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. “He’s going to use the leverage of our markets and our country to the advantage of the people he was sworn in to protect.”
Leavitt warned that China’s retaliation was a mistake and pointed to Israel as an example of how other nations should approach trade deals with Trump. Israel said it plans to move quickly to eliminate its trade deficit with the U.S., but Trump has not yet reached a trade deal with Israel.
Asked how long tariffs might remain in place, Leavitt said the White House moves at “Trump speed.” Just what that means for Americans concerned about higher prices wasn’t clear.
“All options are on the table for each country, but again, these are going to be tailor-made deals, they are not going to be off-the-rack,” Leavitt said.
Goldman Sachs recently raised the odds of a U.S. recession to 45% from 35%, the second time it has increased its forecast in a week, amid concerns about an escalating trade war. Leavitt brushed off recession fears, pointing to the rest of Trump’s economic agenda, which includes deregulation and tax cuts.
Trump has already implemented a 10% tariff on almost all U.S. imports and reciprocal tariffs of up to 50% on some trading partners are set to take effect on Wednesday.
Asked how long it could take to return U.S. manufacturing jobs lost to other nations, Leavitt didn’t give any indication of how long the tariffs could remain in place. However, she said that Trump wants all jobs, including the possibility of building iPhones domestically.
Leavitt said Trump is not considering an extension or delay on tariffs.
“He expects these tariffs are going to go into effect,” she said.
Business groups have opposed Trump’s tariffs. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the U.S. should pursue free trade agreements with other nations. It warned that tariffs could hurt U.S. consumers.
“Broad-based tariffs impose substantial costs on the United States, and their use will backfire on the U.S. economy,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President John Murphy said. “First, a tariff is a tax on imported goods that is paid to U.S. Customs and Border Protection by the U.S. business or individual receiving those goods at their port of entry. Americans literally pay these import taxes.”
Trump has touted progress on trade, but given no indication of how long tariffs could remain in place. Trump said he talked to the acting president of South Korea.
“In any event, we have the confines and probability of a great DEAL for both countries. Their top TEAM is on a plane heading to the U.S., and things are looking good,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We are likewise dealing with many other countries, all of whom want to make a deal with the United States. Like with South Korea, we are bringing up other subjects that are not covered by Trade and Tariffs, and getting them negotiated also.
“China also wants to make a deal, badly, but they don’t know how to get it started. We are waiting for their call. It will happen!”
Leavitt said the U.S. will prioritize allies in making trade deals. She said China made it mistake when it announced retaliatory tariffs.
“When America is punched, [Trump] punches back harder,” she said. “That’s why there will be 104% tariffs starting tonight.”
Last week, when Trump announced his latest wave of tariffs, the president said foreign nations for decades have stolen American jobs, factories and industries. He said the tariffs would bring in new jobs, factories and industries and return the U.S. to a manufacturing superpower.
“Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years,” Trump said. “But it is not going to happen anymore.”
Trump’s executive order on tariffs also gives him authority to increase the tariffs “if trading partners retaliate” or “decrease the tariffs if trading partners take significant steps to remedy non-reciprocal trade arrangements and align with the United States on economic and national security matters,” according to the White House.
(Headline USA) Three people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting in northeastern Virginia Tuesday evening, according to law enforcement.
At about 5:30 p.m., law enforcement received 911 calls about a shooting at a town house complex in Spotsylvania County, about 65 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., said Major Elizabeth Scott, spokesperson for the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office.
She said they are urging the public to stay clear of the area as officials investigate the shooting. No arrests have been made.
“There’s dozens upon dozens of officers out actively looking for suspects and preserving the crime scene,” Scott said.
The people injured in the mass shooting in the area of Olde Greenwich Circle have been taken to hospitals. Their condition is unknown. No additional information about the victims was immediately available.
(José Niño, Headline USA) New data reveals a steep drop in international student enrollment at American universities, a trend that that could see universities lose billions in tuition revenue.
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) data from August 2024 shows a 5% drop in international student enrollment, driven largely by 90,000 fewer Indian Master’s students, who accounted for 95% of the decline.
This figure represented a potential $5 billion annual loss in tuition revenue for American institutions of higher learning.
More recent analysis shows an even steeper decline. SEVIS data from March 2025 indicates that international student enrollment has plummeted by 11% compared to March 2024, representing approximately 130,000 fewer international students in the US.
Reports from Financial Express confirm this trend of declining Indian enrollment in American universities, which fell by 13% from 2023 to 2024. Student visa issuances for Indian students fell by a third, with only 59,000 F-1 visas being awarded to Indian nationals during May to August 2024, compared to roughly 89,000 during the same period in 2023.
This decline represents a sharp reversal from previous trends. The 2023/2024 academic year had actually seen India surpass China as the top country of origin for international students in the United States, with a record-high 331,602 Indian students.
By a similar token, Chinese student enrollment has experienced a long-term decline, falling by 47% from Fall 2020 to Fall 2024 at George Washington University. The State Department issued about 20,000 fewer visas to Chinese students in 2024 than in 2019, with the refusal rate rising from 25% to 36%.
International students contributed over $50 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023 and accounted for approximately 6% of the total U.S. higher education population, per figures from the Chamber of Commerce.
The current decline has concerned higher education policymakers given the projected “enrollment cliff” — a 15% decline in U.S. college students projected to take place between 2025 and 2029 owing to decreasing U.S. birth rates. Many universities had been turning to international enrollment to help offset this demographic challenge.
José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino
(José Niño, Headline USA) In a sweeping victory for Second Amendment advocates on Monday, the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has officially repealed the Biden-era Federal Firearms Administrative Action Policy, widely known as the “zero tolerance” policy.
Originally implemented to penalize gun dealers for even minor paperwork mistakes, the policy created widespread fear and instability across the firearms industry. Its repeal, spearheaded by the Trump administration, signals a sharp turn back toward gun rights and constitutional accountability.
Under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Acting ATF and FBI Director Kash Patel, the agencies also announced plans to formally review two other controversial rules: the stabilizing brace rule and the “engaged in the business” rule, which opponents argue were unconstitutional attempts to restrict lawful gun ownership and create de facto universal background checks.
The stabilizing brace rule attempted to categorize braced pistols as short-barreled rifles—subjecting them to the harsh restrictions of the National Firearms Act. Meanwhile, the “engaged in the business” rule blurred the lines between private firearms sales and commercial transactions, effectively criminalizing casual gun transfers.
Gun Owners of America (GOA), a key opponent of the zero tolerance policy, has long criticized the ATF’s regulatory overreach under the Biden administration. GOA argues the policy had nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with centralized control—particularly targeting law-abiding dealers and small businesses.
Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior Vice President, praised the Trump administration’s decision:
For years, the Zero Tolerance Policy has been a tool of political retribution—targeting gun stores and Americans who were simply trying to exercise their rights. We applaud President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Kash Patel for listening to gun owners and taking action to repeal this abusive policy. This is what pro-gun leadership looks like.
Aidan Johnston, GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs, issued the following statement in support of the Trump administration’s decision to roll back this Biden-era gun control policy:
Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re seeing a realignment toward the Constitution. This repeal and regulatory review of ATF’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy sends a clear message that the era of Biden gun control is over. GOA is grateful for the administration’s commitment to restoring Second Amendment rights and standing with law-abiding gun owners nationwide.
Elected officials such as Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, praised FBI Director Kash Patel for reversing the ATF policies Joe Biden presided over.
This is the right move.
Grateful to @FBIDirectorKash for shutting down these backdoor efforts to build a federal firearms registry — a direct threat to Americans’ privacy and constitutional 2A rights. https://t.co/XgfrZDdhQb
— Congressman Michael Cloud (@RepCloudTX) April 7, 2025
José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino
(Headline USA) The new U.S. attorney for Los Angeles and surrounding areas said Tuesday that he will investigate potential fraud and corruption involving funds intended to alleviate homelessness in Southern California.
Bill Essayli, who was sworn in last week, announced the formation of the Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force, which will “investigate crimes related to the misappropriation of federal tax dollars” across seven counties.
“Taxpayers deserve answers for where and how their hard-earned money has been spent. If state and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, we will do it for them,” Essayli said in a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
The statement called out Los Angeles County, where recent audits found reckless spending and a lack of transparency at the LA Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, the government agency responsible for doling out funds to provide shelter and services for unhoused residents.
Last week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to shift more than $300 million in annual taxpayer funds out of LAHSA to create a new department on homelessness. On Friday, the head of LAHSA, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, said she would step down, citing the county’s decision to pull her agency’s funding.
In March, the city of Los Angeles also began exploring how it could sidestep LAHSA and directly contract with homeless service providers.
The region’s homelessness crisis is especially visible in downtown Los Angeles, where hundreds of people live in makeshift shanties that line entire blocks in the notorious neighborhood known as Skid Row. Tents regularly pop up on the pavement outside City Hall. Encampments are increasingly found in suburban areas under freeway overpasses. A 2024 survey found that more than 75,000 people were homeless on any given night across Los Angeles County.
California accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States.
In addition to investigating programs that receive federal funds, the new task force will look into “fraud schemes involving the theft of private donations intended to provide support and services for the homeless population,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger welcomed the creation of the task force, saying accountability in homelessness spending was “long overdue.”
“I believe this task force will add a much-needed layer of oversight that will help restore public trust and ensure resources actually reach those in need,” Barger said in a statement.
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More than 900,000 illegal foreign nationals who were unlawfully released into the country by the Biden administration through a now defunct CBP One phone app have been notified that their parole status is terminated and have been instructed to leave the U.S. immediately, or face deportation, according to a notification obtained by CBS News.
The “Notice of Termination of Parole” states, “It is time for you to leave the United States. You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security paroled you into the United States for a limited period. … DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole” within seven days of the notice unless their parole expires sooner.
The notice warns those who don’t voluntarily leave who remain in the U.S. will be targeted for removal, criminally prosecuted, subject to civil fines and penalties, and “any other lawful options available to the federal government,” it says.
Any benefits they received when they were released into the U.S. through the app, including work authorization, have also been terminated, according to the notice.
The warning comes after the app was terminated within minutes of President Donald Trump being sworn into office on Jan. 20. Later, DHS announced the app was repurposed as the CBP Home app to facilitate self-deportation.
The notice encourages those who used the CBP One app to illegally enter the U.S. to use the CBP Home app to self deport and notify DHS before and after they leave.
The notice also warns: “DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States – the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.”
It follows a DHS directive issued last month to all foreign nationals living in the U.S. legally and illegally to register with the federal government in compliance with federal law, The Center Square reported. “For decades, this law has been ignored – not anymore,” DHS said.
“An alien’s failure to depart the U.S. is a crime that could result in significant financial penalty. An alien’s failure to register is a crime that could result in a fine, imprisonment, or both,” DHS warned.
That directive followed a multi-million-dollar ad campaign DHS launched in February in which DHS Secretary Kristi Noem urged those in the U.S. illegally to voluntarily leave and told foreign nationals not to illegally enter the U.S., The Center Square reported.
“Let me be clear: if you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States,” she said. “Under President Trump, we are defending American families and restoring their safety. If you try to enter illegally, you will be caught, you will be removed, and you will never return.”
CBP first launched the app at the end of the first Trump administration on Oct. 28, 2020, for commercial purposes to facilitate the efficient movement of commercial goods into the U.S.
Under the Biden administration, former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repurposed it in January 2023, subsequently revising it in May and November 2023, to allow 1,000 daily appointments for foreign nationals to obtain entry into the U.S., the majority of whom would otherwise be denied entry under federal immigration law, The Center Square reported.
The app was another example of Mayorkas violating federal law, House Republicans who impeached him for creating it and other parole programs argued, saying it granted mass parole to foreign nationals who were deemed inadmissible, The Center Square reported. Texas also sued, arguing, “The Biden Administration deliberately conceived of this phone app with the goal of illegally pre-approving more foreign aliens to enter the country and go where they please once they arrive.”
Mayorkas claimed the app would help reduce long lines at ports of entry and illegal border crossings between ports of entry. According to CBP data, the opposite occurred.
Under Mayorkas, the greatest number of foreign nationals illegally entered the U.S. in history of nearly 4 million in fiscal 2023 and nearly 3 million in fiscal 2024, The Center Square exclusively reported.
Since the CBP One app was introduced in January 2023 and through the end of December 2024, more than 936,500 illegal border crossers successfully scheduled appointments through it. The top nationalities processed with app appointments were Venezuelans, Cubans and Mexicans, CBP said.
