Trump Administration Transforms Biden Immigration App Into ‘Self-Deportation’ Tool
The Trump administration has taken an app used by the Biden administration to help migrants schedule appointments at the border and turned it into a self-deportation tool.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin explained how President Donald Trump had “repurposed” the CBP One app — and provided those in the country illegally with an incentive to use it — on Monday morning.
“So this is pretty remarkable. The Trump administration has taken that controversial CBP One cell phone app for migrants that the Biden administration was using, and they’ve repurposed it into a self-deportation app that is officially launching today,” said Melugin.
He continued:
And we’re getting an exclusive first look at it. Take a look, the app is now called CBP Home. It allows illegal aliens in the U.S. to register to self-deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration numbers, their contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity. All of it is then submitted to CBP, and they leave the country.
Now, you might be asking yourself, “Well, why would an illegal immigrant want to self-deport?” Well, DHS says if they leave now, they will have the opportunity to return to the U.S. legally in the future and chase the American dream. But if they don’t leave, they will be found arrested, detained, and deported with a permanent ban on entry into the United States.
In a statement to Fox News, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in part, quote, “The Biden administration exploited the CBP one app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system. If they don’t self-deport, we will find them, deport them, and they will never return.”
The Biden administration’s use of the CBP one app allowed more than 40,000 migrants to come into the U.S. at a port of entry every single month. That totaled nearly 1 million migrants by the end of his presidency. President Trump terminated that app immediately upon taking office, leading to scenes like this showing migrants dismayed at the border on the day of his inauguration as they learned their CBP One appointments were canceled and were never coming back. And DHS tells me that any migrants who had that CBP one app on their phone will see it automatically update to this new self-deportation app starting today. And DHS can also use the data from the prior CBP One registrations to track migrants for removal. So in a nutshell, Dana, Trump just took Biden’s program, which was bringing migrants in and has now totally repurposed it to get them out.
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