Muhammad Hamda, a 48-year-old Florida resident who had been visiting relatives in France, said it took him more than five hours to get through Customs in Chicago. He said airport workers provided water and snacks, but he was annoyed because the delay caused him to miss his connecting flight to Tampa.
“It’s a big mess,” Mr. Hamda said. “Now we have to spend the night at the airport until our flight home tomorrow morning.”
Tim Clancy, 20, landed in Chicago on Saturday evening after returning from a study abroad program in Greece. Mr. Clancy said he had been waiting in line for nearly three hours and still had a long way to go. He was surrounded by hundreds of other passengers also waiting to get their temperatures taken.
“I’m not sure what this is doing to curb any coronavirus,” Mr. Clancy said in a phone interview while he waited. “If anyone had it, it would spread to everyone around with so many people jammed in such close quarters.”
Robert Chiarito reported from Chicago, Mitch Smith from Overland Park, Kan., and Mariel Padilla from Columbus, Ind. Andrea Salcedo contributed reporting from New York, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs from Washington.
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