Migrants can now apply for asylum through CBP One app from southern Mexico

Migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, rest on their way to the United States to escape poverty and violence on the outskirts of Huixtla, State of Chiapas, Mexico, on July 24, 2024. (Credit: Isaac Guzman/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has expanded the area from where migrants can access its CBP One app, allowing non-Mexicans to request asylum appointments from the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in addition to Northern and Central Mexico.

Previously, asylum seekers needed to be in northern Mexican states or Mexico City to start their asylum cases. This expansion is expected to ease pressure on the border cities and provide migrants with safer waiting conditions, away from the violence that they are especially vulnerable to along the northern border.