Kirk's Case Against the CBP One App and Migrant Parole

Showing 16 CBP One App videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The CBP One app became a specific target in Charlie Kirk's broader critique of Biden-era border policy, which he argued had transformed FEMA and other federal agencies into what he called a welfare arm of an engineered immigration crisis rather than genuine emergency response. Kirk demonstrated the app live on his show, downloading it on air and walking through its function as the mechanism the Department of Homeland Security used to process migrants for parole into the country, framing the tool itself as evidence of a deliberate policy choice rather than a response to circumstances beyond the administration's control. He connected the app's role to broader statistics he cited about billions of dollars in benefits, including phones, hotel rooms, and flights, going to migrants processed through the system, arguing the arrangement inverted government's obligation to prioritize citizens over newly arrived foreign nationals. Kirk's coverage of the CBP One app's discontinuation under the Trump administration paired with interviews featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan, who detailed sharply reduced crossing numbers and expanded deportation operations as direct reversals of the app-based parole system Kirk had spent years criticizing. Kirk consistently tied the app to named cases like the murder of Laken Riley, using specific incidents to argue the parole system's costs extended beyond taxpayer expense into public safety itself.