When former President Donald Trump said that “they” are not sending their best he was talking about the Mexican government, and he was attacked by the media for saying it, but now it appears he was correct.

The Mexican government has started bussing migrants to the border with the United States using a phone app implemented by the Biden administration that allows for them to be paroled when they get across the border, Fox News reported.

“The Mexican National Institute of Migration posted the video of what it said was the first bus transporting “foreigners” from Tapachula, in the south of the country near Guatemala, to Reynosa near the U.S. border. It said that migrants will attend their appointments scheduled via the CBP One app. It is part of an “Emerging Safe Mobility Corridor” launched by the Mexican government last month,” the report said.

“The CBP One app was expanded during the Biden administration to allow up to 1,450 migrants per day to schedule an appointment at a U.S. port of entry to be paroled into the U.S. if they meet certain conditions. The app also allows them to upload documents ahead of that appointment.,” it said.

Republicans have said that the humanitarian parole is being abused by the administration and that 95 percent of those who schedule appointments get approved.

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The Mexican government issued a press release last month to announce the new plan.

“The Mexican government, through the National Institute of Migration (INM), announces the launch of an emerging safe mobility corridor to assist in the land transportation of foreign persons who have a CBP One appointment,” it said in the press release.

“The project is part of an inter-institutional strategy aimed at ensuring the safety of foreigners who decide to travel by land to the point of entry for their appointment. In order to protect family unity, the immigration authority will give priority to these groups to travel together,” the press release said.

To assist foreign citizens, the INM will establish two exit points, which will be located at the Immigration Station in Villahermosa, Tabasco, and at the Migration Regulation Office in the Southern Zone in Tapachula, Chiapas.

“The INM will issue a Multiple Migration Form (FMM) valid for 20 days for those people with a confirmed CBP One appointment who choose to travel to the scheduled appointment location through the Emerging Safe Mobility Corridor, which will allow them to have regular stay status during their journey,” it said.

“In a joint security effort, buses that are authorized to carry out the transfer will be accompanied by security institutions at the federal, state and municipal levels; in addition, food will be provided during the corresponding trips. It should be noted that to date, 300 people who requested a CBP One appointment in Tabasco and Chiapas received a response to their request within a few days,” the press release said.

“In this way, the INM promotes actions in institutional coordination aimed at working towards safe, regular, orderly and humane migration,” it said.

But a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report found issues with the vetting done by the app.

“Although CBP uses biographic and biometric information submitted to CBP One to determine whether arriving noncitizens have derogatory records, it does not leverage the information to identify suspicious trends as part of its pre-arrival vetting procedures,” it said.

The former Border Patrol union head claims that since President Joe Biden gave Vice President Kamala Harris the responsibility to address the underlying causes of illegal immigration in 2021, Harris has fallen short.

“It’s very disappointing,” Brandon Judd, who recently retired as president of the Border Patrol Union, told Fox News. “We gave her the policies that she needed to implement. She refused to implement those.”

Judd’s remarks coincide with heightened scrutiny of Harris’s immigration and border security record in the days following Biden’s announcement that he would not be running for president and would instead support his vice president to succeed him. Critics claim Harris has fallen short on a key topic that will determine the outcome of the 2024 election.