By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-10 16:06:33 | Updated at 2025-03-10 19:06:12
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The Trump administration rolled out a new app on Monday that would allow immigrants in the United States illegally to “self deport” rather than face possible arrest and detention, building on President Donald Trump’s deportation push.
The US Customs and Border Protection app, called CBP Home, will offer an option for someone to signal their “intent to depart,” the agency said.
“The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
Trump, a Republican, had vowed to deport record numbers of migrants in the US illegally. Trump’s initial deportation numbers lagged the monthly average in the 2024 financial year under Democrat Joe Biden, although Biden’s deportations included many recent border crossers.
The Trump administration had taken other steps that could pressure immigrants in the United States illegally to leave.
