![]() ![]() “I am tired of the app, they never reply, they never give me an appointment,” said Bravo, 23. On Friday, they stepped off a bus, pushed the babies in a double stroller across the city and headed straight to the banks of the Rio Grande. They had left their native Venezuela nine months earlier, crossed the treacherous Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama, then stopped in Panama where the girls were born. Jesús Bravo and his wife, Jhohan Miperasa, arrived in Matamoros across the border from Brownsville, Texas, with infant twin daughters who were born along the way. Some migrants were arriving at the border after months of travel. “There seems to be no option right now for people to ask for asylum if they don’t have an appointment through the CBP app,” she said. officials were telling asylum-seekers at the port to keep trying the app. The app never worked for him, only displaying an error screen or saying no more slots for applicants were available.īlaine Bookey, an immigration lawyer helping people at the crossing, said U.S. One large scar snakes down his neck from an operation to remove one of the bullets that struck him. CBP One - every day for weeks, repeatedly uploading his case information and photos including scars on his body from being shot nine times during a 2021 robbery. He said he had been trying to use an app that border officials created for people to request asylum in the U.S. “Do you think we can cross and ask for asylum?” he asked. Ludin, a Honduran man who asked that his last name not be used out of fear for his safety and that of his family, arrived Friday at Tijuana’s El Chaparral port of entry with his pregnant wife and 5-year-old son. Here are some of the stories from along the 1,950-mile (3,140-kilometer) international boundary: Some migrants who had traveled from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Central America feared it could be harder for them to stay on U.S. From the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to San Diego and Tijuana, many migrants gathered along sections of the U.S.-Mexico border questioned when or whether they would cross into the United States to seek asylum once pandemic-related restrictions known as Title 42 ended.
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