Because she wants to protect her kids, she has decided she doesn't want to cross into the U.S. illegally. She's decided to stay until she secures an asylum appointment using the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol CBP One app, a platform created by the U.S. government in 2020.
Like Velazquez, many migrants in Mexico who have made the dangerous trek from Central America and South America, have had to wait months to get an asylum appointment because appointments are being distributed via a lottery system.
President Biden issued executive actions severely restricting asylum claims at the border, and migrants who cross are more likely to be removed from the country expeditiously.
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