4:00

available every day, but

4:02

tens of thousands of migrants trying to

4:04

get one. What you're doing is you're

4:06

funneling everyone into one line, and the

4:08

line is already longer than any

4:10

line you've ever seen in your life. Already

4:16

in Tijuana, the average wait time is

4:19

more than seven months. And

4:21

local officials worry that migrant shelters

4:23

there will overflow with more people

4:25

waiting for appointments. I've

4:29

been waiting for almost six months, one

4:31

woman tells us. Eight

4:37

months and one week tells us another

4:39

woman named Maria. She's traveling

4:41

with her two teenage sons. Jasmine

4:44

is the asylum seeker who has been waiting six

4:46

months. She says that the

4:48

long wait times are taking a toll on

4:50

everyone's mental health. She

4:56

says that a lot of the women and children

4:58

in the shelter are depressed and anxious. Maria,

5:01

she started to cry when I asked her

5:03

how long she's been waiting. Maria

5:08

says that she decided to flee her

5:10

home in the Mexican state of Michoacan

5:13

after a local drug cartel burned her

5:15

business to the ground and tried to

5:17

recruit her two teenagers. She

5:19

doesn't feel safe in Tijuana. She's afraid

5:21

that the cartel will come and find her. Maria

5:24

has tried to request asylum in person

5:26

at the legal border crossings. But every

5:28

time, border patrol agents just keep turning

5:31

her back, telling her to use

5:33

the CBP-1 app. We don't

5:35

know what to do with legal,

5:38

but we don't know what to do with

5:40

legal. Maria

5:43

says she wants to follow the legal

5:45

process, but she's starting to lose hope.

5:48

And she's not alone. Those

5:50

in Tijuana say CBP-1's long wait

5:52

times actually contribute to illegal crossings.

5:55

Enrique Lucero is head of Tijuana's migrant

5:58

affairs department. He says roughly One-third

6:00

of migrants who cross the border

6:02

illegally only do so after they

6:04

try to schedule CBP1 appointments. He

6:07

says migrants lose hope after waiting

6:10

several months. Lucero

6:16

believes that forcing more migrants to

6:18

use the app without increasing the

6:20

number of appointments could intensify the

6:22

same crisis that Biden is trying

6:24

to solve. In

6:31

June, several immigrant advocacy groups filed a

6:33

lawsuit to block the new rules. For

6:36

the California Report, I'm Gustavo Solis

6:39

in Tijuana. And

6:46

that is the California Report for Tuesday,

6:48

June 25th. We're a

6:50

production of KQED Public Radio. I'm

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