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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Valerie Gonzalez and Julie Watson

US: Online asylum appointments halted at 1 Texas crossing because of Mexican city's safety woes

SALVADOR GONZALEZ

The Biden administration said Tuesday that the reason it has halted online asylum appointments at the international crossing in Laredo, Texas, was because of the “security situation” across the border in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.

U.S. Customs Border Protection said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press that the government also took into account other unspecified “operational factors, including relatively low demand for appointments for that location.”

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