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The Trump administration is revoking the protected status of nearly one million people who have entered the U.S. using an app created by the Biden administration that allowed them to enter the country first and then schedule a court hearing on their legal status. The revocations are being handled by the Department of Homeland Security and impact an estimated 985,000. "The Biden Administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S., which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history," the department told The Hill newspaper on Tuesday. "Canceling these parolees is a promise...

The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial. "Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached. The White House welcomes that fight. "This is headed...

WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that one of the Columbia students who had her student visa revoked for advocating for violence and terrorism self-deported using the CBP Home App and ICE arrested a Palestinian student for overstaying her expired F-1 visa. Ranjani Srinivasan, a citizen and national of India, entered the United States on a F-1 student visa as doctoral student in Urban Planning at Columbia University. Srinivasan was involved in activities supporting Hammas, a terrorist organization. On March 5, 2025, the Department of State revoked her visa. The Department of Homeland Security has obtained...

ICERAID.US, a new interactive app operating on the blockchain, now lets everyday American citizens to report illegal immigrants and illegal activity in real-time. According to their website… “ICERAID is a GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens that would otherwise be undertaken by law enforcement agencies. ICERAID rewards citizens for capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity as well as 6 other categories of criminal activity to the ICERAID Explorer. The more images and locations you upload, the more ICERAID you earn.” Founder and Lead Architect at AuditChain Labs @JasonMeyersNYC explains to @MattGaetz the functionality of...

SCOOP: The Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home that launches today. DHS tells me any migrants who had the prior CBP One app will have it auto update to this new app, & DHS can use data from prior CBP One registrations to track migrants for removal. The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the US to register with CBP to self deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration...

The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app -- which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally. It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the...

Safety is the new luxury in Gotham. A new app called Protector will offer New Yorkers on-demand access to armed ex-military and law enforcement to chauffeur them around town. “Ultra high-profile individuals like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have dedicated full-time protection teams in place, but for most people, navigating security options is more challenging than it should be,” Protector app founder and CEO Nick Sarath told The Post this week. The app, which launches Tuesday in NYC and Los Angeles, costs $200 an hour for a Protector and a driver. But the price can skyrocket depending on the client’s...

A stunned migrant woman wailed in anguish at the southern border after President Trump shuttered an app that made it easier for migrants to cross into the US. Margelis Tinoco, a Colombian woman awaiting entry to the US, was overcome with emotion after the president axed the CBP One app moments after he was sworn-in. She had been hoping to cross into El Paso from the neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez when the app suddenly went dark, leaving her stuck. Also filmed in a state of despair was Cuban migrant Yaime Perez, who had hoped to use the CBP...

Migrants waiting in Mexico for an appointment with the Biden administration’s CBP One app broke down in tears after learning their appointments were canceled immediately as President Trump took office on Monday. CBP One went offline at 12 p.m. EST Monday, according to an announcement from Customs and Border Protection. It’s just one small part of Trump’s promises to make sweeping reforms at the southern border beginning the first day of his second term. The app allowed tens of thousands of migrants into the US. Up to 1,450 migrants per day were allowed to schedule immigration appointments and request asylum...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: The Biden administration’s CBP One app, which facilitated the transportation of over 1 million illegal immigrants on domestic flights, has been officially shut down. 12:25 PM · Jan 20, 2025

Washington — Approximately 270,000 migrants are estimated to be waiting on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to get an appointment to enter the U.S. through a system that President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end, according to government figures obtained by CBS News. U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that around 270,000 migrants in Mexico are trying to get an appointment distributed by a government app known as CBP One, which the Biden administration has converted into the main gateway to the American asylum system. As of Jan. 16, nearly 919,000 migrants had been allowed into the...

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, fire-tracking app Watch Duty has added 600,000 users in the last 24 hours seeking real-time updates and critical information. The app, run by a nonprofit, relies on hundreds of volunteers including active and retired firefighters to provide accurate and timely information. The LA Times reports that in the wake of the catastrophic fires wreaking havoc across Los Angeles County, the Watch Duty app, a fire-tracking platform run by the nonprofit Sherwood Forestry Service, has seen an unprecedented surge in users. According to CEO John Mills, the app has gained 600,000 new...

The app, set to launch in January, allows illegal immigrants to alert family members and the nearest Mexican consulate if they are about to be detained by US authorities. Mexico is creating an app, "Alert Button," to support Mexican nationals in the US facing potential deportation, a senior Mexican official announced Friday. The app, set to launch in January, allows illegal immigrants to alert family members and the nearest Mexican consulate if they are about to be detained by US authorities. "In case you find yourself in a situation where detention is imminent, you push the alert button, and that...

I keep getting emails with Nextdoor info. It looks like Twitter pretty much and it has my neighborhood correct but I wondered if there were any problems with it or if it might be handy to use.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, including Haitians and Venezuelans, are receiving fast-pass entry into the United States with a taxpayer-funded phone app. 📲Download an app 📲Click a few buttons 🚶SHOW UP AT THE BORDER FOR ENTRY

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For three weeks, 85,000 Yotta customers with a combined $112 million in savings have been locked out of their accounts, CEO and co-founder Adam Moelis ... The disruption, caused by a dispute between fintech middleman Synapse and Tennessee-based Evolve Bank & Trust, has upended lives... “We never imagined a scenario like this could play out and that no regulator would step in and help,” . ... his company has been a source of deep pain for thousands of customers who relied on Yotta accounts to receive paychecks, pay bills and save for emergencies. The crisis began May 11, when a...

A Haitian migrant, reportedly released into the United States via President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline, is now accused of double homicide in Orange County, New York. Kenol Baptiste, a 30-year-old Haitian migrant, was indicted in Orange County on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. On April 1, prosecutors allege that Baptiste stabbed his two roommates — who were also from Haiti — to death using a knife. Baptiste then allegedly sought to hide the knife he used and fled the scene. A report reveals that Baptiste had been released into the U.S. interior less than...

There’s now a new way for residents and the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office to stay in touch with one another. Sheriff David Cirencione unveiled the department’s new app on Monday. He said the app will provide residents with another way to get a hold of police in an emergency. Cirencione said the app will also allow residents to send police tips on criminal activity. The app is now available to download for free in the App Store and Google Play by searching “Ontario County Sheriff, NY”

My wife's sister is a JUCO medical instructor and this new term the college encourages all faculty/student communications to be done via "Google Voice". She related to us some of the capabilities of the app and it all sounded "kinda OK", and had some positive possibilities. My question to this forum: has anyone on here used Google Voice, and if so, are there any caveats?