We have a stupid screwed up immigration system

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Trying to avoid a rush of migrants across the border when Title 42 lifts late Thursday night, the government has urged them to apply for asylum from their home countries or through the CBP One cellphone app, which is supposed to allow migrants to make an appointment to legally enter the country through a port of entry and request asylum.

But migrants in El Paso and Juárez who spoke to the Tribune said the app routinely crashes as they and thousands of other migrants try to get appointments during a 10-minute window each morning. Others don’t have cellphones to even make the attempt.

Jiménez said she spent weeks trying to get an appointment for her family from the migrant camp in Juárez, but every morning the app would crash. When she finally got it to work, the app didn’t register her husband’s and two daughters’ information — she’s not sure whether it was her mistake or the app’s — and it gave her an appointment in Arizona.

The app wouldn’t let her add the rest of her family to the appointment. So she took a bus to Arizona and crossed into the U.S. there without her family two months ago.

“We’re separated because of that stupid app,” her husband, a former Venezuelan law enforcement officer, said on a recent weekday as he sat inside the family’s tent at the migrant camp.

Like many migrants in the camp, their patience is running low. They have thought about crossing the border illegally if they don’t get an appointment soon.

“But for now, we’ll play by their rules, we’ll respect their laws,” Guerrero said.

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They were giving people who want to legally come here, 10 min a day to apply via an app.

Now, starting tomorrow, that will be available 23 hours a way, but who in the world thought 10 min a day was a good idea?

And we wonder why people cross illegally.

Over 100 years ago, we had the ability to legally process immigrants at Ellis Island, but trying to do it today is just too hard, I guess.