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Struggling with US asylum app, migrant families split at border

Migrants, mostly from Venezuela seeking asylum in the U.S., use their phones to access the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP ONE application to request an appointment at a land port of entry to the U.S., in a shelter near the border between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 24, 2023.

Mexico City Reuters Dozens of migrant families are splitting up at Mexico’s northern border as they struggle to secure US asylum appointments on a government app beset by high demand and persistent glitches, migrants and advocates say. The anxiety of separation is piling more pressure on families who have often taken perilous journeys through several […]