US halts appointments using migrant phone app at Texas border crossing

Move follows reports of extortion by Mexican officials in Nuevo Laredo who threaten migrants with missing asylum appointmentsThe Biden administration has stopped taking mobile phone app appointments to admit asylum seekers at a Texas border crossing that connects to a notoriously dangerous Mexican city after advocates warned US authorities that migrants were being targeted there for extortion.US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) gave no explanation for its decision to stop scheduling new appoi