At a recent hearing of a subcommittee of the House committee that deals with homeland security, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) launched into a predictably deceptive tirade about the pace and nature of migration to the United States.
A key focus for her anger was an app, known as CBP One, which assists prospective migrants with scheduling… and which Greene blew up in her rhetoric into something that it’s just not.
“If I am an individual, and I’m coming in to America, I can go on there, and I can choose how I want to come in,” Greene observed, clearly frustrated though the early parts of her description of the app were rather mundane. She was really mad about the info made available through the service regarding expected wait times at various ports of entry to the U.S., at least in comparison to the claimed lack of options in the app for commercial trucking operations. She went on to also be majorly furious about what was apparently the ability to just schedule an appointment with relevant immigration or border authorities via the app, but it’s not as though migrants would automatically be accepted if they just scheduled an appointment.
Greene then asked Blas Nuñez-Neto of the United States Department of Homeland Security why the feds supposedly can’t conclusively say the number of migrants who have entered the United States considering the metrics collected through that app… but, well, they do?
“We do update the public and Congress on the number of people who are processed through the CBP One application, and I believe my testimony notes that since May 12, we’ve been averaging about 1,070 individuals a day using the CBP One application, which again, as Chief Huffman noted, is just a scheduling tool that allows individuals who may wish to claim asylum to access the ports of entry as the Immigration and Nationality Act provides,” Nuñez-Neto explained. Any claim people can just stream into the country using that app is wrong, as there’s no guarantee their asylum claim would be accepted, though Greene explicitly suggested otherwise.
Check out Greene’s questioning below:
