The CBP One App for asylum-seekers much improved

More than a year ago, the Biden administration released a mobile app that was supposed to make applying for asylum in the US much more orderly. But it was rife with problems from day one. KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis reports that a year on, most of the problems have been fixed. 

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