DHS Sec. Nominee Kristi Noem: If Confirmed, CBP 1 App ‘Will Be Shut Down’ on Day One

HAWLEY: “...would pay for this kind of concierge service for illegals? I think it’s outrageous. Will you end the use of the CBP One app?”
NOEM: “Yes, senator. If confirmed, and I have the opportunity to be secretary, on day one, CBP One will be shut down. There’s data and information in there that we will preserve so that we can ensure we know who’s coming into this country and who’s already here that we need to go find, but also we make sure that — there’s another program, CHNV, which I’m sure you’re very familiar with, where a federal government actually paid to fly people into this country directly from other countries without any vetting or knowing who they are. So there’s several of these programs that need to be eliminated, and we need to ensure that we’re following legal immigration laws.”
HAWLEY: “I’m glad you just mentioned CHNV. This is another — this is a mass parole program. Of course, as you know, our law allows parole in only very limited circumstances. There are two circumstances, and it requires case-by-case evaluation. The present administration, soon to be gone, has granted mass parole and in direct defiance of the law, not case-by-case evaluation. The CHNV program is one of those instances. Will you put a stop to this abuse of our parole law in our asylum system?”
NOEM: “Yes, we will go back to case-by-case evaluation of these parole cases and ensure that we have more resources, if you will partner with us, to make sure that our legal immigration system is fully utilized, that we have more judges, more immigration courts, so that we can process people legally and make sure that they are going through that process rather than like Joe Biden has done, use this as an excuse to allow people to come into our country with no consequences.”