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Entry for people arriving at airports across the US began returning after a Customs and Border Protection computer system failed, forcing the manual processing of passengers on a busy summer travel day.
The system was being restored and passengers being processed, the agency said in a statement at 6:25 pm New York time.
The failure was isolated to operations at airports, sparing other points of entry such as seaports or highway border crossings, according to the agency.
“CBP will continue to monitor the incident. There is no indication the disruption was malicious in nature at this time,†the agency said in a tweet.
Airports, including Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Los Angeles International, said in tweets that systems there were back in operation and passengers were being processed.
Seattle’s airport said the
problem stemmed from the Federal Inspection Services’ computer system.