How the global tech outage is impacting border security

DEL RIO, Texas (NewsNation) — The CrowdStrike outage has impacted each Customs and Border Patrol laptops and workstations, on with strategy applications, according to the national agency.

While immoderate postulation was moving Friday day astatine the Del Rio port, the website that offers updates connected hold times was down arsenic of 1:05 p.m. section time.

Some travelers trying to transverse the El Paso assemblage person reported hold times of 3 to 4 hours. It usually takes lone 45 to 70 minutes.

An mean of 35,000 radical a time travel done the El Paso port, connected ft and by vehicle.

As the outage continues, the national authorities is surging resources to El Paso arsenic worries persist of postulation heading into Arizona and California.

And it’s not conscionable astatine the confederate border.

The Peace Bridge successful Buffalo, New York was besides dealing with backups.

The Department of Homeland Security issued the pursuing connection to NewsNation:

“Our committee is intimately pursuing the developments of today's planetary IT outage including the borderline information implications. Disruptions astatine our ports of introduction could contiguous a superior vulnerability and we indispensable larn however to forestall an incidental similar this from happening again.”