“We will’t enter, we don’t perceive the brand new system,” complained Wendy Perez Peña, 31, who left Venezuela in March to flee poverty.
Jeison Rodriguez Jesus Salas, 27, shook his head in frustration.
“They haven’t up to date it effectively, they need to have up to date it higher,” he stated.
Out of the group of 11, not one had been capable of safe an appointment on Thursday.
Elsewhere alongside the border, beneath a burning solar in Reynosa, Mexico, throughout from McAllen, Texas, Osiris Yamilet Ochoa, 20, had been attempting repeatedly to safe an appointment by means of the app.
On Thursday afternoon, she opened it as soon as once more and it learn, “Await an appointment,” in Spanish.
“Everyone is attempting to cross to the USA, however we have now heard that for those who cross earlier than your appointment date, it might be thought-about unlawful crossing and it might harm our case,” Ms. Ochoa stated as she took a break from promoting gum within the streets to purchase child milk for her 8-month daughter, Milagros. “I don’t need to threat it. Now we have been right here for 3 months. We will wait a couple of extra days.”
The Homeland Safety secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, denied that there have been any widespread technical glitches with the C.B.P. One app. “We’re using it very successfully,” he stated on Thursday. The issue, he stated, was a scarcity of workers assets to schedule as many interviews as wanted.
