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CBP or DHS entry records confirm Brooks's 2024 entry via the CBP One process, and CBP/DHS data or official reports confirm that over one million individuals entered via CBP One and that those entries were unvetted as claimed.
The ICE press release explicitly states that “Brooks entered the U.S. under the Biden administration’s…CBP One app in 2024,” so the part of the statement about his 2024 entry via CBP One is consistent with the government’s own description of his case. However, the same sentence’s claim that the CBP One app “allowed over a million unvetted aliens into the country” is not supported by CBP’s own data or process descriptions. CBP reports that from January 2023 through the end of December 2024, “more than 936,500” people scheduled CBP One appointments, and those presenting at ports of entry are subjected to “biographic and biometric security vetting and background screening,” i.e., they are specifically described as vetted, not unvetted. Because the numerical threshold (“over a million”) is at best uncertain in the relevant period and the characterization of entrants as “unvetted” directly contradicts official vetting descriptions, the overall statement mixes one accurate element (Brooks’ 2024 CBP One entry as described by ICE) with a misleading portrayal of the scale and vetting of CBP One users. The verdict is Misleading because the statement accurately reflects ICE’s narrative about Brooks’ CBP One entry but adopts its unsupported and contradicted framing that the app enabled “over a million unvetted” entries, which conflicts with CBP’s own data and vetting procedures.